A CRDT Supporting Selective Undo for Collaborative Text Editing

@inproceedings{Yu2015ACS,
  title={A CRDT Supporting Selective Undo for Collaborative Text Editing},
  author={Weihai Yu and Luc Andr{\'e} and Claudia-Lavinia Ignat},
  booktitle={IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems},
  year={2015}
}
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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