Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A new approach is proposed to transparently share familiar single-user editors\nwithout modifying their source code. This approach tweaks a classic diff algorithm\nto derive edit scripts between document states. Concurrent edit scripts are merged\nto synchronize states of coauthoring sites. Our concept-proving prototype currently\nworks with familiar, heterogeneous text editors such as GVim and WinEdt that can\nbe adapted to support two basic interfaces, GetState and SetState. The adaption\nis less expensive and more robust than recent approaches such as ICT and CoWord,\nwhich must understand and translate editing operations at the operating system level.\nExperimental data show that our approach is able to provide sufficient performance\nfor near-realtime group editing.
Author: Jiajun Lu
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2279710928