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