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gobby

Etymology 1 a. (context informal English) Marked by the presence of gobs (gloss: lumps). Etymology 2

a. (context British slang said of a person English) Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner. n. (context Australia New Zealand slang English) An act of fellatio.

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Gobby

Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X using Apple's X11.app.) It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0x539 dev group. (The hexadecimal value 0x539 is equal to 1337 in decimal.) Gobby uses GTK+ for its GUI widgets.

It features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication out of band. Users can choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.

A dedicated server called Sobby is also provided, together with a script which could format saved sessions for the web (e.g. to provide logs of meetings with a collaboratively prepared transcript). The collaborative editing protocol is named Obby, and there are other implementations that use this protocol (e.g. Rudel, a plugin for GNU Emacs). Gobby 0.5 replaces Sobby with a new server called infinoted.

Version 0.4.0 featured fully encrypted connections and further usability enhancements.

Versions numbered 0.4.9x are preview releases for version 0.5.0. The most noticeable improvement is undo support, using the adOPTed algorithm for concurrency control.

Usage examples of "gobby".

Without looking at him, Gobby raised a gloved hand and gestured for him to be quiet.

But Sweet Milk was better at knowing when to keep silent than at finding such clever words, and when Gobby asked, he had to answer.

Remembering how Gobby had silenced him earlier, Per kicked Fowl on along the path--but Gobby was his uncle.

Sweet Milk, following, wondered if Gobby had noticed that his ride was dividing into two.

That drew a glare from Gobby, and Per reined Fowl in, patting his neck.

He should be with his own people, not trailing along behind Gobby, and he suspected that his uncle meant to order him to stay on the hillside, taking no part in the fight, like a boy making his first ride.

But Gobby deserved an apology for having admitted that Per had been right.

He kept turning his head back to the valley floor, and Per pulled his head around, kicked him, urged him on, whacked his rump with the butt of his lance, set on taking his own prisoner, a man Gobby would have let escape.

Sighing, Gobby looked at Sweet Milk, and gave the slightest of nods toward Per.

Isobel, Sweet Milk, Gobby and others all made to help lift the stretcher.

Both Sweet Milk and Gobby moved in, trying to catch the hound, but she leaped at them, coming up on her hind legs as tall as a man, then thumping down to stand over Per again.

If thee had far-speaks, thou couldst talk to Gobby when he was in his bastle house, and thou wast in thy tower.

The next morning, Gobby, with his two younger sons, Wat and Ingram, and a small party of men, rode into the tower from his neighboring bastle house.

After the meal, most of those at the lower tables went back to their work, but Gobby, Toorkild and their sons stayed in the hall, at the family table.

Toorkild and Gobby smiled at each other and kept an indulgent silence as the brothers, between them, related how the Sterkarms had been ready for the Grannams, how the beacons had been fired and the bells rung.