Thomas IngramFeb 12
Teamtype

Imagine a protocol like #LSP, but for adding real-time collaboration to existing text editors. It would allow #Neovim to edit a #Hedgedoc, or peer-to-peer pair programming between #VSCode and #Emacs!

We've come up with our own little protocol like that (for Teamtype), but we'd like to open up the discussion:

That's why we're inviting everyone interested to an initial online gathering on Feb 26, 19:00 UTC, to gauge interest for working on a protocol like this together!

https://md.ha.si/collaborative-editing-protocol

Feb 12 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadTeamtypeFeb 12

For some background, you can watch the talk @zormit and @blinry gave at #FOSDEM:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CQHN8T-teamtype-towards-a-collaborative-editing-protocol/

We'd especially love your input if you already have experience standardizing protocols, to point us towards best practices!

Show threadMattia BunelFeb 12
@teamtype poke @SReyCoyrehourcq, @raphaellek, @mc, @khinsen
Show threadSanchith HegdeFeb 12
@teamtype Couldn't find it on the related projects page, had you folks come across kakoune (https://kakoune.org) before?
Kakoune - Official site

The official website of Kakoune, a selection-first modal code editor

Show threadzormitFeb 12
@teamtype @sanchithhegde we're aware of it as a potential editor, yes. But as far as I know Kakoune does not have collaboration features, where two or more people can edit the same text, or does it?
Show threadCaleb MaclennanFeb 13
@zormit @teamtype @sanchithhegde Not to my knowledge, but it is still interesting because the editor UI itself uses a collaboration protocol internally so you can open up multiple editor instances editing the same file. It isn't just a headless UI either, it's using a collaboration protocol internally for collaborating between editors which would map 1-to-1 to between users.
Show threadSanchith HegdeFeb 13
@zormit @teamtype The homepage of the website mentions that it has a client-server architecture, and that multiple clients can simultaneously modify a file. But I can't say with certainty however, as I haven't used it myself.
Show threadCorentinFeb 16
@teamtype @sanchithhegde @zormit have you poked inside the zed codebase to know how they do it?
Show threadPonder Stibbons 🇧🇷🇩🇪Feb 14
@teamtype
This is an awesome idea but for the love of god make a standard library for it so we don't end up in wayland protocol hell...
Show threadTeamtypeFeb 17
@blackcoffeerider Can you elaborate? A C library, you mean? What's the adverse outcome in case of Wayland?
Show threadLutin DiscretFeb 16
@teamtype teamtype matrix room?
Show threadTeamtypeFeb 17

@lutindiscret If you're interested, we set up a #Zulip instance: https://teamtype.zulipchat.com

(This fits our needs in the project better. We'd be happy to have you join!)

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Show threaduridlFeb 17
@teamtype why is there the @p2panda Logo in the graphics. I just screened your source code but could not find and usage of p2panda libraries
Show threadTeamtypeFeb 17

@uridl @p2panda It's from our talk at FOSDEM where we argued for a protocol like this.

The graphic is rather saying: This *should* be a thing! :)

Show threadDavidFeb 23

@teamtype Have you looked at the work of Floobits?
https://github.com/Floobits

They were trying to make a business out of collaborative editing plugins and got multiple editors working together:

Sublime Text
Neovim
Emacs
IntelliJ IDEA

Looks like the client code is Apache license, so you could look at their protocol. Their website is dead, but maybe some of their archived writing is useful: https://web.archive.org/web/20150319214812/https://floobits.com/help/faq