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google docs on the other hand seems to allow multiple cursors on the same window. So one person may type in section 1; while the other person type in section 2 without interfering with each other.
With a single cursor however; when two people type at the same time they almost necessarily interfere with each other. Unless one stops driving while the other types.
I think to implement the 'google docs' style multiple editors would require a different buffer for each user and a merge script that periodically runs the commands for each ofthe other multi-user buffers into each other buffer of the multi-user sessions.
Regarding the subtext of adjunct professor / student tuition abuse and exploitation for the keepers of the 'trademark and databases.'
We are almost facing the event horizon of a black-hole; sub-star level lecturers are facing obsolescence. Mega-corp is trying to establish a stranglehold on what may be the 'database.' The database will determine your personal 'trademark' status in society and its integrity is something worth fighting for.
Real question: I have experimented with RTC using TMUX and VIM; and it seems like an essential meh factor was the single cursor; sure any of us could take the "driver seat." But a rogue mode with multiple cursors on the screen would be more like the google docs implementation; and this does not seem like a problem you have solved??
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