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by tmail21 3462 days ago
Yes, this problem could be mitigated somewhat by showing caret positions. But this method is very reliant on the users paying extremely close attention. It does not work at all when the silent semantic errors are caused by "far flung" edits, where you don't even see the other caret because it is "off screen" for you.

Asking users to resolve a conflict is not possible, because the whole idea of OT is to have no-conflict merges and would have no idea where the conflicts are.