I love the idea of obby/gobby — I just can’t stand the editor. I’d much rather use my beloved Emacs, or even gEdit. But it looks like things are coming together for a more sophisticated D-Bus solution. Once there are network bits tied in, you could use Vim and I could use Emacs, and we could collaborate on a document through the obby protocol or Telepathy. I hope some of the freedesktop.org hackers reading this planet are watching…
