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.