Ivan Krstić | 20 Nov 17:31

Re: A few more toolbar buttons for AbiWord?

J.M. Maurer wrote:
> That wouldn't be a requirement with abi collab. We can aggregate lots of
> strokes (or better, in abi terms: ChangeRecords, thing "patches to the
> document") if needed.

How does this deal with conflicts?

> We have that already sorted out for n people. Even with proper
> undo/redo.

Is there a design doc somewhere for the way your collaboration works, or
do I need to go read the source? I'm very skeptical of things being as
simple as you make them sound, because a colleague recently researched
most of the published research on collaborative editing techniques, and
found many of the problems I list to be generally still unsolved.

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