Wednesday 10/22 - Social meetup 6pm(ish) - 9pm(ish) at J Greene's Pub

When:

    6pm until they kick us out some time after 9pm

Where:

    J Greene's Pub

    10017 Manchester Rd.
    St. Louis, MO 63122
    (314) 394-2330

    http://www.jgreenespub.com

    Map: https://goo.gl/maps/hOjtp

Agenda:

- Drink things

- Eat things

- Talk about Vim things

- Ponder future meeting location, uh, things

See you there!

Bill

Wednesday 8/27 - Social Meetup!

...which is a roundabout way of saying that I just found out our usual spot at CAIT is unavailable this month. :-)

Since we won't be able to meet at the normal location, I say we get together here instead:

Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery & Bierhall
4465 Manchester Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

Map

They've got good food and really good beer, and lots of big open tables to eat and drink it around. We can start off the evening talking about Vim, and then, after enough beer, finish the evening singing about Vim. :-)

We'll meet at 6:30pm, as usual, and hang out until whenever. Please let me know if you plan to be there, so I'll know how much of that big-open-tablespace to grab.

Thanks!

Wednesday 7/23 - Cherrypicking Favorite vi/Vim Features

WHAT:
  St. Louis Vim Geeks: “Cherrypicking Favorite vi/Vim Features” by Don Ellis

WHERE:
  CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
  Classroom 24
  5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:
  Wednesday, July 23rd, at 6:30pm

Cherrypicking Favorite vi/Vim Features

Don says he'd like to talk about

a fairly long list of operations that would help a new user get started, or a long-time user who hasn't plumbed some of the shallower depths.

Things we came up with include executing shell commands without exiting the editor; quickly setting up minimal config on a new system (with usable color scheme); determining whether syntax coloring is installed and how to make it so; using the system paste buffer while in visual mode, and a number of others that should be of special interest to a new user.

Drinks and Food and Stuff

RSVP by replying to this message on the mailing list (or privately to me and/or Bill if you're shy), and we’ll be sure to have enough food and drinks for everybody.

When and Where

We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, July 23rd, in the usual place:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology)
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/b8r9
Forsyth MetroLink Station: http://bit.ly/PuOJ6a

CAIT provides detailed driving directions and parking information here:

http://www.cait.wustl.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37

(Don’t worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn’t apply to us.)

Make sure you reply to this message to RSVP!

See you there,

Steve

Wednesday 6/25 - Autocommands

WHAT:
St. Louis Vim Geeks: “Autocommands” by Perrin Westrich

WHERE:
CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:
Wednesday, June 25th, at 6:30pm

Autocommands

A cryptic blurb from Perrin (a.k.a. CrypticSwarm):

Throughout the course of the day we use our editors constantly. We write and type and type our writes (#haskell). Occasionally we find that our textual machinations tend towards the redundant and repetitive. Struggle as we might there is a light. Enter the Autocommand (#dragon).

(We think he's going to talk about these things: Vim Autocommands.)

Drinks and Food and Stuff

RSVP by replying to this message on the mailing list (or privately to me if you're shy), and we’ll be sure to have enough food and drinks for everybody.

When and Where

We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 25th, in the usual place:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology)
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/b8r9

Forsyth MetroLink Station: http://bit.ly/PuOJ6a

CAIT provides detailed driving directions and parking information here:

http://www.cait.wustl.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37

(Don’t worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn’t apply to us.)

Make sure you reply to this message to RSVP!

See you there,
Bill

Wednesday 5/28 - The State of Neovim

WHAT:
St. Louis Vim Geeks: “The State of Neovim” by Kyle Pointer

WHERE:
CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:
Wednesday, March 28th, at 6:30pm

The State of Neovim

According to the Neovim Github project page at https://github.com/neovim/neovim…

Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:

• Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
• Split the work between multiple developers
• Enable the implementation of new/modern user interfaces without any modifications to the core source
• Improve extensibility with a new plugin architecture

It all sounds promising, but is it really going to happen? And is it even a good idea?

Kyle Pointer’s going to bring us up to speed on all things NeoVim, including:

• Why?
• What’s new?
• Who’s doing it?
• What works?
• What doesn’t?
• How can I help?

It promises to be interesting (and maybe even a little controversial).

Drinks and Food and Stuff

RSVP by replying to this message (either on the list, or privately to me), and we’ll be sure to have enough food and drinks for everybody.

When and Where

We’ll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 28th, in the usual place:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology) Classroom 24 5 N. Jackson Ave St. Louis, Missouri 63105

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/b8r9

Forsyth MetroLink Station: http://bit.ly/PuOJ6a

CAIT provides detailed driving directions and parking information here:

http://www.cait.wustl.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37

(Don’t worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn’t apply to us.)

Make sure you reply to this message to RSVP!

See you there, Bill

Wednesday 4/23 - Vim and Emacs: Indistinguishable From Magic

WHAT:
  The Very First Official Joint Meeting of the
  St. Louis Emacs User Group and St. Louis Vim Geeks

WHEN:
  Wednesday, April 23rd, at 6:30pm

WHERE:
  Joyia Tapas <http://www.joyiatapas.com>

RSVP:
  <http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Emacs-User-Group/events/176643292/>

Arthur C. Clarke once said that "Any sufficiently-advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic," and those of us that spend our days
contending with code and configuration know that we need all the magic
we can get. Text is a hostile environment, and demands powerful tools to
tame it.

For the first time, the St. Louis Vim Geeks and the St. Louis Emacs User
Group are joining forces to talk about two of the most powerful
text-editing tools available. We'll compare, contrast, and generally
celebrate the strengths (and speak delicately of the weaknesses) of
these two titans of text editing, Emacs and Vim.

Join us Wednesday, April 23rd, at Joyia Tapas. We'll get started around
6:30pm, but feel free to show up a little earlier if you'd like to grab
a bite or have a drink beforehand.

Come find out what a "sufficiently-advanced" text editor looks like, and
how to unleash a little more magic on your text-editing tasks!

Please RSVP at this link, so we can tell Joyia how many to expect:

  <http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Emacs-User-Group/events/176643292/>

Also, please forward this invitation to any other people or groups that would
find it useful.

See you there!

Wednesday, 3/26 - Vim + Ruby + tmux

WHAT:  St. Louis Vim Geeks
       - Vim + Ruby + tmux by Matt Follett

WHERE: CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
       Classroom 24
       5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:  Wednesday, March 26th, at 6:30pm

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Vim + Ruby + tmux

Remember waaaaaay back, like, a year ago, when a few of us took over Vim Geeks to pump Charlie Sanders for tips on using Vim with Ruby?

  http://www.vimgeeks.org/2013/02/wednesday-227-vim-ruby-and-visual-mode.html

Ah... good times, good times.

Well, in the months since then, Matt Follett took Charlie's good advice to heart, and then ran with it, writing more Ruby than is healthy for a man his age. He's going to show us the environment he's crafted from Vim and tmux to build, debug, and maintain the Ruby backend for a large application (and he may even have a little to say about the not-so-Ruby-based frontend, too). It'll definitely be a trip.

Drinks and Food and Stuff

Just reply to this message (either on the mailing list, in a comment below, or privately to me if you're the shy type) to RSVP, and we'll be sure to have enough food to eat and drinks to drink. We'll also have an O'Reilly freebie or two to give away, because Marsee Henon loves us.

When and Where

We'll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 26th, in the usual place:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology)
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

CAIT on Google Maps

Forsyth MetroLink Station

CAIT also provides detailed driving directions and parking information . (Don't worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn't apply to us.)

Make sure you RSVP!

Bill

Wednesday, 2/26 - Vim Q&A

WHAT:  St. Louis Vim Geeks
       - Vim Q&A

WHERE: CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
       Classroom 24
       5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 26th, at 6:30pm

RSVP:  http://www.meetup.com/vimgeeks/

---

Vim Q&A

Do you find yourself trying to use Vim and tripping over a problem regularly?  Want some help?  Ask your questions at this month's meeting, and the group will do our best to answer them.

As an example, Lee asked for some help interacting with the system clipboard from Vim recently.  As a fellow Linux user, I can go into dealing with that in some detail.  :-)

When and Where

We'll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, February 26th, where we usually do:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology)
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

CAIT on Google Maps

Forsyth MetroLink Station

CAIT also provides detailed driving directions and parking information . (Don't worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn't apply to us.)

See you this Wednesday!

Steve

Wednesday, 1/22 - A Vim Environment Tour

WHAT:  St. Louis Vim Geeks
       - A Vim Environment Tour

WHERE: CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology
       Classroom 24
       5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105

WHEN:  Wednesday, January 22nd, at 6:30pm

RSVP:  http://www.meetup.com/vimgeeks/

---

A Vim Environment Tour

We're going to continue our series of Vim environment tours, but this time we're going to look at some celebrity .vimrcs.  We'll start with Damian Conway's.  Time permitting, we'll see what else we can find on GitHub.

When and Where

We'll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, January 22nd, where we usually do:

CAIT (The Center for the Application of Information Technology)
Classroom 24
5 N. Jackson Ave
St. Louis, Missouri 63105

CAIT on Google Maps

Forsyth MetroLink Station

CAIT also provides detailed driving directions and parking information . (Don't worry about the parking permit stuff. It doesn't apply to us.)

Make sure you RSVP!

See you this Wednesday!

Steve