Meeting Notes 2012-01-19
Table of Contents
Dinner before business
As the Dining Philosophers have decided to terminate our dinner funding, we are forced to bring our own food.
Bars, Garbage Chutes, and Tap House
The Emacs Club Dotfiles Party
- Next Tuesday.
- We need a venue. All the usual rooms are unavailable.
- The discussion immediately switches to bars again. And which bar could host Emacs Club. They would need to have a projector.
- We decide to postpone to the week after.
Dotfiles Party Planning
- Levine 307, April 16th
The Content
- What are dotfiles?
- Symlinking dotfiles to a git repo.
- ssh executing a check on your dotfiles before logging you to your machine.
- Zach is opposed to adding more indirection to managing dotfiles.
- Zach : These kids don't understand what these things are that they're using.
- We want the vim club kids to join this. They tried to start something but couldn't get out of movement mode.
Matt's Meeting Notes
- Where's Matt Croop? We miss his meeting notes.
Soy Foam
- Zach : The foam after shaking a packet of soy sauce is gross.
- Zach is able to halt all conversation by displaying more soy foam.
The Basics
Dotfiles
- What is a dotfile?
- What is Bash?
- The order files are loaded in (depends on OS).
Environment vars
- Environment variables, the important ones.
- PATH
- HOME
- CLASSPATH
- USER
- EDITOR Just call env and talk about some.
- Can set your own environment variables and use them later.
- Demonstrate what happens when you screw up PATH.
Aliases
- How to
- Necessary mv and rm aliases to -i.
Functions
- cd-ls -> cl
- Rafe's untar-ing function.
Practical uses
Potluck
- Get audience to provide their dotfiles and share with others.
- Make sure Ceasar attends.
- Start out with Rafe.
- Go through our dotfiles.
- zsh.
There must be a mode!
- We talk of newsticker, for an alternative to Google Reader.
- fci-mode, a subtle 80 char limit line.