Gobby
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Gobby is a free software
Free software
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 collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X
Mac OS X
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 using Apple's X11.app
X11.app
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.) It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group.

It features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users can choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode
Unicode
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-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf
Zeroconf
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 support.

A dedicated server called Sobby is also provided, together with a script which could format saved sessions for the web (e.g. to provide logs of meetings with a collaboratively prepared transcript).

Gobby also has realtime chat built-in.

Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted
GnuTLS
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 connections and further usability enhancements.

Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is that it supports Undo, using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control.

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