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Undo is an important feature of editors. However, even after over two decades of active research and development, support of undo for real-time collaborative editing is still very limited. We examine issues concerning undo in collaborative text editing and present an approach using a layered commutative replicated data type (CRDT). Our performance study shows that it provides sufficient responsiveness to the end users.
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- Local Operation
- Model Operation
- Editing Operation
- Remote Operation
- Concurrent Operation
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Yu, W., André, L., Ignat, CL. (2015). A CRDT Supporting Selective Undo for Collaborative Text Editing. In: Bessani, A., Bouchenak, S. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19129-4_16
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