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Given by Remek Trzaska at Rice University Tango Tutorial on October 18 1999. Foils prepared October 19 1999
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Short Description of one of tools built around Shared Emacs in Tango
Tutorial assumes users are familiar with conventional Emacs
and necessary Emacs files have been installed
This is a Shared Lisp Application

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1 Emacs-Edit for Tango
2 Purpose
3 Operation
4 Operation (continued)
5 Screenshot
6 Other Emacs Modules

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Foil 1 Emacs-Edit for Tango

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Remek Trzaska

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Foil 2 Purpose

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There is a need for a tool suitable for teaching programming languages.
The teacher presents a snippet of source code and asks students to modify it; after some time he presents the solution to them.
Students can save their copies of source code on their computers.

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Foil 3 Operation

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After starting up Emacs-Edit via Tango Session Manager, press C-xt (Control-x followed by t) and type the location of a file you want to share
  • Use backspace to delete characters, press tab to expand directories and file-names. Press Enter when done
The content of the file is sent to all participants of Emacs-Edit session

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Foil 4 Operation (continued)

From Emacs-Edit for Tango Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. *
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When someone joins the session, her/his Emacs will receive all files shared by the teacher
Edit the file
To send updates to students press C-xp
To close (kill) a shared file press C-xk
To quit Emacs-Edit press C-xC-c

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Foil 5 Screenshot

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Foil 6 Other Emacs Modules

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Emacs-Edit is a part of a larger suite of (X)Emacs modules for TANGO:
  • tanEd: shared editor application for text files, with focus on source code, for multiple developers, based on region locking.
  • tanDeb: shared debugger running via XEmacs, one person executes the code, others view the debugging process, possibly controlling it remotely.

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