Meeting Notes 2012-02-14

• According to github, emacsclub is 95.6% JavaScript and 4.4% Emacs Lisp. Bootstrap, y u no in elisp?
• According to the SEAS calendars, "Pulak Mittal Vim Club" has a meeting scheduled simultaneously with us. However, they didn't send out any advertisement.
  • Alexey : They were going to but they forgot to hit i first.
• Mish : I'm going to do everything in emacs.
• Mish : Emacs assumes you are smart.
• Mish : You can type M-x followed by any elisp function. Let's try zone, which is Zach's favorite.
  • Mish : I don't even know what it's doing.
  • It's doing the martini swan dive.
• Emacs comes with pdf reference cards.
  • Zach : Print it and keep it next to you.
• Mish turns to the audience, and then turns back to his laptop. Suddenly, the projector screen withdraws and the lights dim.
  • Andrew : It's the vim club!
• Andrew : Editing is the heart of what emacs is used for. What we do all day is programming, which is editing text.
  • Emacs is designed for coding.
  • Andrew : If you're writing an English paper, killing a line makes no sense.
  • Unless you're Buckminster Fuller.
• Andrew : This is my favorite command. C-k kills a line.
• Mish : You can open one of my files!
  • Andrew opens OCaml Practice, and instead gets a letter from Mish to whom it may concern.
• No one uses M-k.
  • Andrew : That makes sense if you're writing papers!
    • No one writes papers.
• Zach : This is probably Mish's coq homework.
• Mish discusses undoing the undoing of the undo.
  • Mish : It'll undo your undos if you go back to when you were undoing things.
  • Andrew : You need to figure out what it's doing when you're undoing.
• Andrew starts typing. Hello people of the world!
• Andrew : It opens a buffer with all of the buffers.
• Nick and Rafe arrive an hour late. Welcome!
• Andrew : This is a frame.
  • Andrew drags the window around.
• Rafe is a expert on emacs' LaTeX mode.
  • (Maybe Rafe writes papers?)
  • Mish : You should give a talk on it.
  • Rafe : I followed a tutorial online.
• Andrew : Emacs is never wrong with indentation. If it indents improperly, you messed up somewhere.
• Mish attempts to produce a regex to find emacs key shortcuts.
  • Mish : This is getting out of control.
• Rafe points out that people not in SEAS might feel excluded by our mailing list signup form.
• Github wished Rafe an octotastic day!
• We browse /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/JOKES