Headless Collaboration

[DarkArc]

Summary

It would be great if Zed had an option where you could on the command line setup a collaborative editing environment.

Something like:

zed --run-collaboration-server <zed-host-id-key> \
    --invite <zed-id-1> --invite <zed-id-2> \
    --invite <zed-user-group-1> --invite <zed-user-group-2> \
    <project-dir>

Then those users/people in those groups would be able to connect into the project an edit it remotely without someone having to keep a Zed instance alive at all times.

[DarkArc]

This is similar to remote development. Maybe this is possible via a remote connection + share through the GUI (that would certainly be nice, though command line "driver" of some sort also seems nice). I don't have any new enough servers with a new enough glibc to test this at the moment.

[ConradIrwin]

We've talked about this! Likely we'd build it into Zed's channels, so you can share a project into a channel and have it remain there even after you leave the call.

[notpeter]

This is not something which is currently on our roadmap, but none the less an interesting idea.