From: Zachary Vance <za3k@za3k.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:46:25 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Text editor
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Text editor
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+Update: the book is available for sale on Lulu to the public. [Volume 1](https://www.lulu.com/shop/inria-and-zachary-vance/ocaml-manual-53-vol-1/hardcover/product-zm9gr4w.html) and [Volume 2](https://www.lulu.com/shop/inria-and-zachary-vance/the-ocaml-manual-53-vol-2/hardcover/product-849pyq5.html).
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 Recently I've been teaching myself new programming languages with books. I got one for D, Elixir, Erlang, and Go. 
 
 OCaml was also on my list of languages to learn, but there is no good OCaml book available. I started reading an online course textbook (for Cornell's [CS 3110](https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html)), only to find it painfully slow, beginner-level, and aimed at course tools besides. Eventually, I found the official OCaml manual to be the best source of information.
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+author: admin
+categories:
+- Technical
+date: 2025-02-23
+tags:
+- ocaml
+- software
+title: 'Multi-user Text Editor'
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+I finished the text editor I was working on to learn OCaml.
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+![caption: three people editing one document](text-editor2.png)
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+It's (tentatively) called textmu. The selling point is that it's designed for multiple users, all SSH-ed into the same machine, to edit a document collaboratively. Otherwise, I basically made it a simplified knockoff of `nano`.
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+Source code is [on github](https://github.com/za3k/text-multiedit).
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+If you'd like to try it out (and don't want to compile it locally), feel free to get an account on my public server, [tilde](https://tilde.za3k.com).
+
+Also, an update. The OCaml folks said it's fine to publish their book, so you can now [get your own copy](https://blog.za3k.com/ocaml-manual/) if you want one (link goes to updated blog post with photos).