Good IM/Chat solution for pasting code

Question

We've got several distributed developers working together on a couple of projects. We've been using Skype to host chats with all the developers, and it works okay except for one thing:

It REALLY mangles any code we copy and paste into the chats -- especially the whitespace in Python.

This question has tons of opinions about chat clients & servers, but no one has much to say about pasting in code. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36415/best-chat-im-tool-for-developers)

Is anybody out there using a chat or im client that handles source code really well?

Answer 1

Try Teamtalk

Features:

• SSL Security - Same as what banks use for online transactions.
• Source code highlighting in messages.
• Screen capture, Remote desktop, File transfer.
• IM, Conference, Groups, Send message to all/many.

Answer 2

There's pastebin

Answer 3

You might want to look at Gobby:

"Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms."