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Gobby for Windows

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Gobby is a free, real-time collaborative editor for Linux. It supports multi-document sessions, encrypted channels, syntax highlighting, and an integrated multi-user chat for seamless developer collaboration.

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  • Pros

    • Real-time collaboration over encrypted channels
    • Syntax highlighting for multiple programming languages
    • Manages multiple documents within a single session
    • Features an integrated IRC-like multi-user chat
    • Provides session password protection for security

  • Cons

    • Designed primarily for the Linux GNOME desktop environment
    • Utilizes the legacy GTK+ 2.6 user interface toolkit
    • No support for rich text formatting
    • Does not include built-in version history
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Gobby for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
0.4.94
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2000
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
134
Downloads Last Week
8
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Developer’s Description

By 0x539 Dev Group
Get a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It uses GTK+ 2.6 as its windowing toolkit and thus integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment. Gobby for Linux features realtime Collaboration through encrypted channels, each user has its own changeable color to be identified by others, IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners while coding, syntax highlighting for most programming languages, session password protection, multiple documents in one session, drag'n'drop of documents into Gobby, document synchronization on request, zeroconf and unicode support.
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