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Meeting Notes 2012-09-25

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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.

Emacs prelude

  • 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!

Color themes

  • 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

Control vs. caps lock – welcome to the Thunderdome

  • 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.

Finally: as Zach leaves, he mentions dongles. This meeting can finally rest in peace.

Date: 2012-11-02 15:54:01 EDT

Author: Rafe Kettler

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