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The GNU EMACS Editor
March Meeting: The GNU EMACS Editor
Date: March 5, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Rosemount Branch, Ottawa Public Library
This month we will have a short mystery talk from Ian Gorman followed by the main presentation on emacs by Roland.
Pre-meeting:
There will be a one hour pre-meeting item from 17:30 to 18:30 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.
After Meeting Social:
After the meeting, there will be a social event at one of the nearby pubs or restaurants. A short discussion and vote as to location will be taken then.
GPG Keysigning:
After the main talk and possibly the BoF, there will be the opportunity for a GPG key signing. This is a monthly offering, just look for Scott after the talk and we can go from there. Bring some kind of photo ID and some keyslips if you expect people to sign your key.If you need some method of creating pages of keyslips, there is an online slip generator available.
Mystery Topic
Speaker: Ian Gorman
Join Ian Gorman who will be giving a short (15m) talk. Come for the intrigue, stay for the information.
About the Speaker
Ian has a lot of experience at applying experience outside of its original box.
He has solved problems in Economics, Math, Computer Science, logic based controllers, bicycles, and human relations, generally mixing in information from at least one other discipline or computer language to make it work, or work better. His experience with computers includes Linux, Mac, and several server OSes from IBM, Sun, and others. He has worked with drivers, parsers, API design, business rules, Java garbage collectors, and some less exotic code that just needed to work.
Emacs
Speaker: Roland Renaud
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Roland has been using Emacs for over 20 years for software development, sysadmin, reading and sending email, documentation, etc…
The talk will give an overview of GNU Emacs from basic editing to advanced features and customization.
About the Speaker
Roland has been using Emacs for over 20 years for software development, sysadmin, reading and sending email, documentation, etc…