[UM-LINUX] This month's meeting: Flame Wars-- Text Editors

[John Demme]

Due to some scheduling confusion, this month's meeting has been rescheduled to next week, April 6th at 7pm in CSIC 1121

Next week's meeting, however, will be the text editor flame war.  We'll be having religious fanatics from the Emacs camp, the Kate consortium, and the vi guys are invited as well, if they volunteer.

Debate format: Each team will have time to do an opening demo of their editor, followed by challenges from each team to the others.  After this, each team will be allowed a closing demo.  This debate will be largly demo based.  If you can't show it, it doesn't count!

So far, we have people representing Emacs and Kate.  The Emacs representer, however, is myself and I'd rather moderate.  So, I'm looking for people to argue for vi and emacs (and more people are allowed on the kate team.)  Although I'm prepared to argue for Emacs, I'm not an emacs wizard, so if you're an Emacs wizard, come and support Emacs.

I'm also looking for a KVM switch to use, if anyone can volunteer one.

This should be interesting.  If it goes well, we'll do a programming languages flame war in the future.

I'm also looking for people to help advertise this event.  Email me if you can spare some time.

~John Demme