pair programming, vim?

[Remco Gerlich]

Rainy <sill at optonline.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Did anyone try pair programming over the net? In particular, is it possible
> to set up vim with a shared buffer or, failing that, some other editor? If
> so, does anyone want to try pair programming some small project? 

Emacs.

The simplest possible way, as someone on the emacs group pointed out, is
M-x make-frame-on-display. Simply open another window of this same emacs
instance on that computer there, and you can both type in the same buffer,
and see what the other does. Obviously, there are problems (if one quits
then both quit, and the remote user has total access to the files of the
local user running emacs).

Another option is shbuf: 
http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/shbuf/shbuf-1.1.tar.gz

One user starts a server (written in erlang, you need an erlang interpreter)
and others can connect to it, to share a buffer. Only one person can edit at
a time, the others watch.

-- 
Remco Gerlich