FWIW there is a way to add in syntax highlighting, and
I could probably
create a new instance for that. There was also chatter on the Etherpad
channel yesterday about writing plugins for compiling and running
programs on the backend of the server.
Additionally, I suppose, we could write a plugin for enabling a grouping
of pads into projects, which would make it easier to have multiple files
open at once.
I think the major problem is that any files on the etherpad server will
need to be downloaded or copy/pasted before you can actually run them,
which may or may not be ideal. But again, there may be a solution in the
plugin API.
("backend of the server" - sorry, I just woke up)
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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