Editing MoonEdit (section)

{{Short description|2003 text editor}}
{{Infobox software
| name = MoonEdit
| author = Tom Dobrowolski <ref name=tom>{{citation |url=http://ged.ax.pl/~tomkh/ |title=Tom Dobrowolski programming |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429052920/http://ged.ax.pl/~tomkh/ |archive-date=2009-04-29}}</ref>
| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[FreeBSD]]
| genre                      = [[Collaborative real-time editor]]
| released                   = {{Start date and age|2003}} (as ''Multi-Editoro'')
| latest release version     = 1.14.1s
| latest release date        = {{Start date and age|2005|1|28}}
| language                   = English, Polish
| programming language       = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| website                    = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127063009/http://moonedit.com |date=27 November 2016 |title=moonedit.com }}
}}

'''MoonEdit''' was a [[collaborative real-time editor|collaborative real-time text editor]]. It was released for [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[FreeBSD]]. While the concept of real-time collaborative editing was [[The Mother of All Demos|famously demonstrated]] in 1968, MoonEdit was one of the first software products to fully implement it.<ref name=early>First would be ''Instant Update'' from [[ON Technology]] in 1991, then ''[[SubEthaEdit]]'' around the same time as ''MoonEdit'', ~2003-2005.</ref>

The software used code from [[Ken Silverman]]'s [[Build (game engine)|BUILD]] [[game engine]], and employed [[client-side prediction]] to reduce the effect of [[Latency (engineering)|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 (computer networking)|port]] 32123 by default.<ref>See the [http://is-root.de/wiki/index.php?title=TingWiki&redirect=no ting-wiki].</ref> MoonEdit featured infinite undo history that could be browsed using a time-slider and replay button.<ref>Adler, A., Nash, J.C., Noël, S. (2006), Evaluating and implementing a collaborative office document system. Interacting with Computers, 18 (4), 665-682</ref>

MoonEdit was originally written by Tom Dobrowolski under the name ''Multi-Editoro'', while he was a student at [[Gdańsk University of Technology]], in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ken Silverman's Official Home Page |url=http://advsys.net/ken/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=advsys.net}}</ref> It could be downloaded for free for non-commercial use, but an announced commercial “PRO” version never appeared.<ref name=mepro>{{citation |url=http://moonedit.com/introen.htm |title=MoonEdit PRO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127065335/http://moonedit.com/introen.htm |archive-date=2016-11-27}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Engadget is part of the Yahoo family of brands |url=https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_2f5a083e-f08e-4889-818e-db6178e65111 |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=consent.yahoo.com}}</ref> While the software is no longer developed, many other text editors have adopted its feature set, including ''[[Atom (text editor)|Atom]]'' (using the ''Teletype'' extension) and ''[[Visual Studio Code]]'' (using the ''Live Share'' extension).<ref name=vscode-ls>{{cite web |url=https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share |title=Live Share for VS Code |access-date=2022-02-26}}</ref><ref name=atom-tt>{{cite web |url=https://teletype.atom.io/ |title=Teletype for Atom |access-date=2022-02-26}}</ref>