Meeting Notes 2012-01-31

• John Mayer presents: M-x emacs-club!
• John : This is a Bring Your Own Laptop event. At some point it's going to be you're out of battery and that's it. Next week we might do something with a projector.
• John asks how many are just here for the pizza. No one raises their hand.
  • John : Wow, you're all here for emacs? That's great! Or you're all lying liars.
• John : It's our favorite editor that isn't a Google product. If they made Google Emacs I'd be really torn.
• Sam Panzer stops by looking for the vim club meeting.
  • John : It's in the basement.
• John : If you're on Windows, you can download a GUI version of emacs, but you're really going to want to shell into eniac.
• The intro message looks sort of error-message-like.
• Levine 315 is now over capacity.
  • This is Emacs Club. Standing room only.
• There are many different levels of emacs use. One of them is "I browse the web in emacs."
• John : Don't ask me what c stands for. You just memorize it.
• We have http://emacsclub.com, running on emacs.
• Like John, Mish asks how many people have used emacs before.
• Mish : For some reason you want emacs to display a cat whenever you open it up.
• Mish : Shout out what you want to tinker with.
  • rectangular selection of text.
  • diff within emacs
  • sending emails
  • John extolls the virtues of syntax highlighting.
    • Mish : If you invent your own language, you can write your own syntax highlighter.
  • flymake
  • customize
  • formatting
  • Kevin asks about CoffeeMode, emacs' implementation of HTCPCP.
    • "You can probably guess how CoffeeMode came about… yadda yadda everything but make coffee… yadda yadda…" - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CoffeeMode
  • version control
  • elisp
  • code completion
  • major/minor modes
  • org-mode
    • Mish : I can't resist teaching it to everyone!
  • dired
  • built-in help
  • John : Your homework is play around with the tutorial.
  • (tl;dr: "Can emacs–" "Yes.")
• John : Now that Zach's here you should try M-x zone.
• Mish points us to the help files at C-h h.
  • Andrew : C-h h just tells me how to say hello in different languages.
  • Mish meant C-h C-h.
  • Mish : The help pages are better than Google.
  • John : There it's just going to be StackOverflow.
  • Mish : Here it's going to be Richard Stallman.
• John : Fork us on github!
• Mish conducts the polls.
  • John : This is a democracy until we tell you it isn't.
• Next meeting in two weeks.
• John : vi is a great editor. We just like emacs better.
  • Mish : Wait, it doesn't have elisp, how do you customize it?
  • Andrew : Vimscript. I dunno if it's a real language.