Issues in the Design of a Toolkit for Supporting Multiple Group Editors (1993)
| Venue: | Computing Systems -- The Journal of the Usenix Association |
| Citations: | 29 - 13 self |
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@ARTICLE{Knister93issuesin,
author = {Michael Knister and Atul Prakash},
title = {Issues in the Design of a Toolkit for Supporting Multiple Group Editors},
journal = {Computing Systems -- The Journal of the Usenix Association},
year = {1993},
volume = {6},
pages = {135--166}
}
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Abstract
A great interest has developed in recent years in building tools that allow people to collaborate on work without the need for physical proximity. One such class of tools, group editors, allows collaborators to view and edit a shared document simultaneously from their workstations. Building group editors, however, requires solving non-trivial problems such as providing adequate response time for edit operations and yet ensuring consistency with concurrent updates, and providing adequate per-user undo facilities. We have implemented a toolkit, called DistEdit, for building new interactive group editors and for converting existing single-user editors into group editors with minimal changes to their code. The toolkit allows different users to use their favorite editors (e.g., Xedit, Gnu Emacs) to edit a shared file and observe each others ' changes as they occur. The toolkit provides fine-grain concurrency control, fault-tolerance, synchronization of views, and support for per-user undo. ...
