| Original author(s) | Tom Dobrowolski |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2003; 21 years ago (2003) (as Multi-Editoro) |
| Stable release | 1.14.1s / January 28, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01-28) |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows and FreeBSD |
| Available in | English, Polish |
| Type | Collaborative real-time editor |
| Website | moonedit.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 November 2016) |
MoonEdit was a collaborative real-time text editor. It was released for Linux, Windows and FreeBSD. While the concept of real-time collaborative editing was famously demonstrated in 1968, MoonEdit was one of the first software products to fully implement it.
The software used code from Ken Silverman's BUILD game engine, and employed client-side prediction to reduce the effect of latency. Up to 14 participants could edit simultaneously, each having independent cursor positions updated in real time. Text added by each participant was highlighted a different color. Users could connect to a public server or set up their own dedicated server. MoonEdit servers listened on port 32123 by default. MoonEdit featured infinite undo history that could be browsed using a time-slider and replay button.
MoonEdit was originally written by Tom Dobrowolski under the name Multi-Editoro, while he was a student at Gdańsk University of Technology, in 2003. It could be downloaded for free for non-commercial use, but an announced commercial “PRO” version never appeared. Interest may have been lost due to the appearance of several web-based real-time editing platforms, starting with Writely (now Google Docs), around 2006. While the software is no longer developed, many other text editors have adopted its feature set, including Atom (using the Teletype extension) and Visual Studio Code (using the Live Share extension).
See also
References
- Tom Dobrowolski programming, archived from the original on 2009-04-29
- First would be Instant Update from ON Technology in 1991, then SubEthaEdit around the same time as MoonEdit, ~2003-2005.
- See the ting-wiki.
- Adler, A., Nash, J.C., Noël, S. (2006), Evaluating and implementing a collaborative office document system. Interacting with Computers, 18 (4), 665-682
- "Ken Silverman's Official Home Page". advsys.net. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- MoonEdit PRO, archived from the original on 2016-11-27
- "Engadget is part of the Yahoo family of brands". consent.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- "Live Share for VS Code". Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- "Teletype for Atom". Retrieved 2022-02-26.
External links
- moonedit.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 November 2016)
- How to connect to a MoonEdit-server? at wiki-Woodstock
- community-wiki: MoonEdit - ideas and thoughts about the program, screenshots
- teach-me-wiki, a wiki for organizing online lessons using MoonEdit and Skype.