General Info
By: Richard Glaser - Revised: 2006-05-16 devinIntroduction
Basic information about SubEthaEdit, its price, platform support, downloading, and typical uses.
What is SubEthaEdit?
SubEthaEdit is a collaborative text editor, that allows you to share documents on a local network (with
Rendezvous) or on the internet. Participants can type simultaneously and see what others are typing. It combines the simplicity of TextEdit and the power of Rendezvous.
What is the price?
SubEthaEdit is released as freeware to non-commercial use (not open source) and is developed by The Coding Monkeys, which is a small group of computer science students at "
Technische Universität München" (Technical University of Munich).
Platform Support
SubEthaEdit only runs under Mac OS X and relies heavily on the Cocoa Framework, including but not limited to Rendezvous, Address book and the some networking code. That currently there are no plans to port it to other platforms like *NIX or Windows.
Typical Uses
- Meeting Minutes
No more arguing about taking meeting minutes or miss important points or information which might happen with one person taking minutes. - Collaborative Authoring
Write text together with your co-authors in the same building, campus or across the country. - Programming
Improve your coding skills & productivity, One method is using "Pair Programming". Two programmers working with SubEthaEdit (virtually side-by-side), collaborating on the same design, algorithm, code or test. One programmer, has control of the keyboard/mouse and actively implements the program. The other programmer, continuously observes the work of the other to identify errors and also analyzes the direction of the work.