Some O'Reilly connected folks have put together an extension for Kwiki to allow SubEthaEditing of wiki pages. This is really cool. It would solve the problem of concurrency and collaborative writing problems which come up with high activity wikis. One thing i noticed, which i hadn't know about before was the see:// syntax which drops in to SubEthaEdit to connecting to a server.
All this makes me wonder why there isn't a cross platform and free version of SubEthaEdit. It feels like we're in another situation where it's free enough, like moveable type.
Posted by rabble at August 19, 2004 11:51 PM | TrackBackand like movable type the situation will at some point piss off someone enough to make a free version ;-)
Problem seems to be that SubEthaEdit relies heavily on the Cocoa class methods -encodeWithCoder and -initWithCoder. since the class definitions that are coded by these standard functions aren't open it seems to be quite difficult to hack these.
I do not know if -encodeWithCoder and family is supported in GNUStep, but if it is, one has only to crack the class definition open they are using...
The SubEthaEdit folks appear to have considered releasing it as open source and then decided against. They said source was coming soon back during the initial release. Now they have a version up for sale.
Posted by: Kiran Jonnalagadda at August 21, 2004 09:00 AM