Meeting Notes 2012-02-21

• Tess mentions to Max Mintz that she's learning vim. He admonishes her for choosing the wrong editor.
  • Tess: His eyes lit up and flames came out of his nostrils.
• It is a (common?) misconception that emacs and vim are basically the same thing.
  • Rafe: They're not the same at all. Our software isn't held together with duct tape, it's held together with parentheses.
• At 6:12, the meeting hasn't started.
  • Zach: Are we waiting for pizza?
• Rafe: Someone should have a talk on easter eggs.
  • Zach: M-x zone
  • Rafe: M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
    • I have SEEN the CONSING!!
• Andrew wonders if he has to use the projector or if we can follow along on our own computers.
  • Andrew: I trust you to be able to do some things.
  • John: Wait, I haven't installed emacs yet.
• John discovers the info page entry on SMTP.
• John discovers wikipedia-mode.el.
• Now that CETS made seas.upenn.edu point to the web server instead of eniac, connecting to eniac via tramp is slightly more difficult. Maybe they should change it back?
• Andrew complains that if you C-x C-f a file in a directory that doesn't exist, it won't automatically run M-x make-directory.
  • Mish suggests he fix it.
  • He will name it braunstein-mode.
• Andrew: There's this guy on twitter, @emacs_knight. You should follow him.
• Andrew: There's a caculator in emacs, C-x * *. I believe that it works in mysterious ways.
  • It's Reverse Polish Notation.
  • Rafe: Someone should make a TI-83 emulator in elisp.
• There is, once again, a dongle of unknown owner.
  • Mish: As long as we say the word "dongle" once per session.
• Topics for next session?
  • Andrew wants to talk about the mark stack and C-u C-<SPC>.
    • Mish: That might be overkill.
  • hexl-mode
    • Mish: It'll be useful in Network Security class.
  • C-x C-x