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title: "Remote Pair Programming with collaborative text editors"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/16/remote-pair-programming-with-collaborative-text-editors.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/16/remote-pair-programming-with-collaborative-text-editors.html"
published: "2007-03-16T17:49:03"
updated: "2007-03-16T17:49:03"
tags: ["Agile", "Cool Tools", "General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Pair Programming when working with remote teams is somewhat of a problem, until you start counting in the fact that Collaborative Text Editing between remote location is supported in some text editors as a primary…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Remote Pair Programming with collaborative text editors

By Roy Osherove March 16, 2007 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 16, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Pair Programming when working with remote teams is somewhat of a problem, until you start counting in the fact that Collaborative Text Editing between remote location is supported in some text editors as a primary feature.

[Gobby](http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/) and [MoonEdit](http://moonedit.com/indexen.htm) are two that I know about, but when will we see something like this for Visual Studio .NET? I'm pretty sure the latest version of [SlickEdit](http://www.slickedit.com/content/view/73/60/) has something like this as well, right?

Know any good add-ons or tools that will allow remote Pair Programming with .NET?

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- Apr 26, 2007

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    ### [Test Reviews Vs. Code Reviews - Some Helpful Tips](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/13/test-reviews-vs-code-reviews-some-helpful-tips.html)

- Mar 9, 2007

    ### [Adobe uses Agile Development Successfully to build Photoshop CS3 product](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/9/adobe-uses-agile-development-successfully-to-build-photoshop.html)


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