GOBBY(1)

💖 GOBBY(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this one is a whole vibe. this is the manual page for gobby, and i'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. no cap, it's short, but it's iconic. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gobby — a collaborative text editor 🫶

like... it's an editor. but make it communal. iykyk.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gobby [options] [file(s)]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. you give it some options if you're feeling fancy, and you hand it file(s) if you've already got stuff to edit. main character energy tbh. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: gobby is an editor that lets you edit text documents and source files collaboratively over a network. 🌈

read that again. collaboratively. over a network. not me gatekeeping this.

and the way it works?? changes to the documents are synchronised instantly to the other clients. instantly. no refreshing, no "did you save", no "wait did my edit go through", none of that. everyone sees it basically the second it happens. it's giving group chat but for your files. 👑

lowkey the best part: your whole crew can be in the same document at the same time and it just... stays in sync. obsessed. 🎀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

gobby was written by the 0x539 dev group <crew@0x539.de> 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie. this little gem came out of the General Commands Manual (that's the 1 in GOBBY(1), in case you were wondering — section one, iykyk), and it's dated August 17, 2006. 💖 so yeah, it's been slaying since way back. periodt. 🦋✨

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