Most feature-full collaborative editor for Mac OS X?

Question

I'm looking for a collaborative editor that doesn't suck :) And that at least supports Ruby syntax highlighting. Also, a developer and I will be using this to program, so Google Docs won't work.

In all reality, I just need a collaborative editor that has the concept of a project. Where both users see the folder structure of a project and thus see what the other user has opened and is editing.

Also, it would be ideal that both users have local copies of the data (none of this "You remote into me and don't get to keep the data when we're done" stuff) so that one can actively develop against each other's code.

Truthfully, I've found such an editor: http://www.n-brain.net/una_ide.html#features

But I'd really like to see if there's something else out there that's just killer.

I've tried ECF and Eclipse, and it seems SO promising, but NONE of the Ruby IDE's implement the very simple methods of incorporating ECF document sharing functionality into them.

So, does anyone actively use Collaborative editors? And if so, what's your setup like?

Answer 1

SubEthaEdit is an excellent collaborative editor. It allows multiple users to edit files simultaneously, and chat about it. So far it is the best thing I've found for this sort of thing.

Answer 2

Coda licenses SubEthaEdit and includes the same collaborative functionality. Coda also has a notion of a project including directory structure.

Answer 3

Aquamacs (Emacs for Mac they call it) is pretty much feature rich and supports collaborative editing as well. Its hard to beat that in feature list. See this list on wiki to do a comparison yourself . And best of all, its open source! Then there is BBEdit too but doesn't have collaborative editing.

Also see this original question for a comprehensive list.

Answer 4

You seem to have two different questions there.

For Ruby on Rails, you probably want this one: Aptna RadRails .

For collaborative editor, I haven't tried any collaborative editor myself (other than SubEtha, tho not for actual collaboration). But if you haven't looked yet, here are some options you may wish to try:

• Zoho Writer , which is a better Google Docs

• Bespin , from Mozilla

• beWeeVee Notepad , an off-stream online alternative

I got 'em all from AlternativeTo.net

Answer 5

SubEthaEdit is quite the tool. I love it.