Meeting Notes 2012-09-25

Food and attendance

We have 14 people here. This might be a record for a non-{tutorial,interest} meeting.
Nicos emails beforehand to tell us he's "brining a power strip." Could be handy if we run out of Potbelly.
10 sandwiches from Potbelly may not be enough for this crowd. Pizza might be the new Potbelly.

Like starter kit, but better for Emacs 24?
Emacs takes a long time to start up and throws errors the first few times after Prelude is installed. Why the first few times? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Prelude by default comes with guru-mode, which complains every time you use the arrow keys. Good choice for beginners.
- Benjamin wants to know how to unbind the arrow keys. This is a solved problem with a mechanical keyboard – just pull the keys out
Zach should make his instructions on Prelude available online for reference
Prelude installs clojure-mode and goodies the first time a file with a .clj extension is opened. Nifty.
Someone wants to know how to paste in Putty:
- Benjamin: You kiss your computer screen three times…
Apparently, Prelude's smex equivalent is vastly superior to normal smex
Orren tries to install prelude using wget without having wget installed
- Andrew: You don't have wget installed.
- Orren: But it did a thing!

Benjamin wants a light color theme – suggestions include solarized-light and tomorrow.
- End result? Light themes that look "nice" are too hard to read. Benjamin is sticking with the default theme.
Are dark themes better for your eyes?
- Answer: nobody has any clue

Benjamin wants to know what everyone's preferences are for using control vs. something else with Emacs.
Only Zach and Rafe don't use caps lock
An existential debate on the usefulness of caps lock arises:
- Rafe: When do you ever use caps lock?
- Benjamin: When I'm really angry.

Author: Rafe Kettler

Date: 2012-11-14 17:49:52 EST

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