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Most past research efforts in co-editing have focused on homogeneous co-editing, where users use the same editor to collaborate, but little has been done on supporting heterogeneous co-editing, where users may use different editors to collaborate. In this work, we explore the rationales behind the design of CoVim+CoEmacs heterogeneous co-editing system, which allows rivaling Vim and Emacs users to edit shared documents in the same real-time session. We argue that heterogeneous co-editing can provide a platform for rivaling editors to co-exist and allow advocates of different editors to appreciate each other. In this paper, we report our findings on the main benefits of heterogeneous co-editing and its potential role in resolving the “holy war” between Vim and Emacs.
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This research is partially supported by an Academic Research Grant (MOE2015-T2-1-087) from Ministry of Education, Singapore. The authors wish to thank anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive feedback.
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Cho, B., Ng, A., Sun, C. (2018). CoVim+CoEmacs: A Heterogeneous Co-editing System as a Potential Solution to Editor War. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00560-3_9
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