Wednesday 3/27 - Stealing^WLearning from Sublime Text

[Bill Odom]

WHAT:
St. Louis Vim Geeks
- A Whirlwind Tour of Sublime Text from Josh Weaver
- Grab Bag & General Tomfoolery

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

WHEN:
Wednesday, March 27th, at 6:30pm

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


A Whirlwind Tour of Sublime Text from Josh Weaver
=================================================

Vim users know a good idea when they see one -- that's how most of us
ended up on Vim in the first place, after all -- and sometimes those
ideas come from other text editors. In our ongoing quest to keep people
asking "Why are you talking about <some editor that isn't Vim> at a Vim
Geeks meeting?" we've got Josh Weaver to introduce us to Sublime Text.
Sublime is a relative upstart in the world of programmers' text editors,
and it's attracted a lot of positive attention of late.

Josh recently moved from using mostly-Vim to mostly-Sublime, and is
going to give us a tour of Sublime, as well as his rationale for making
it his editor of choice. He said to be sure to mention that he "welcomes
questions," and I have no doubt we'll oblige, perhaps more than he
anticipates. :-)


Grab Bag & General Tomfoolery
=============================

You know that part of the meeting where people ask questions, share tips
and tricks, talk about new plugins they've discovered, and talk about
what they'd like to see or do at upcoming meetings? That's the part
we'll do after we're done pumping Josh for things we can steal from
Sublime Text.


Free Food, Drink, and Swag
==========================

We'll have good stuff to eat and good stuff to give away, as long as you
promise to RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/vimgeeks/ so we know how much
we'll need.


When and Where
==============

We'll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 27th. Here's the address:

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 RSVP!

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

See you Wednesday,
Bill

[Nathan Neff]

I wish I could attend Wednesday because I'm extremely interested in
Sublime Text.

I've heard about it from students in my classes (about 3-4 really
smart students, and a friend
of mine recommended it).

I found this really funny, (but NSFW) blog:
http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2013/03/16/just-use-sublime-text/
and I really laughed out loud because a lot of the blog is true.

--Nate

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[Bill Odom]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found this really funny, (but NSFW) blog:
> http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2013/03/16/just-use-sublime-text/
> and I really laughed out loud because a lot of the blog is true.
>

I read this a couple of days ago, and found myself nodding (and
laughing) in several spots. Painful and funny.

[Scott Granneman]

I’ve been using ST for about 9 months, & I really like it. 

I initially chose it for my students at Wash U & Webster because:

* It’s free to use (it’s nag-ware, but not too naggy)

* It’s cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)

* It’s quick & easy to install

* It works really well out of the box with HTML/CSS, which is what I’m teaching

* & it uses text files for configuration, which weirds out all of my students on day 1, & then they get used to it & understand why that’s a good thing.

I like it a lot, & so do my students. I use it for writing, coding, & just about everything.

I actually have to teach Wednesday night, or I’d be at the meeting. I sure hope slides are provided somewhere, or notes, or something.

Scott

--

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“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

      ---Eric Hoffer

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Nathan Neff]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Scott Granneman <sc...@granneman.com> wrote:
> I’ve been using ST for about 9 months, & I really like it.
>
> I initially chose it for my students at Wash U & Webster because:
>
> * It’s free to use (it’s nag-ware, but not too naggy)
> * It’s cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)
> * It’s quick & easy to install
> * It works really well out of the box with HTML/CSS, which is what I’m
> teaching
> * & it uses text files for configuration, which weirds out all of my
> students on day 1, & then they get used to it & understand why that’s a good
> thing.
>
> I like it a lot, & so do my students. I use it for writing, coding, & just
> about everything.
>
> I actually have to teach Wednesday night, or I’d be at the meeting. I sure
> hope slides are provided somewhere, or notes, or something.

I second the request for slides -- never thought I would (because all
the old-people
want slides instead of ACTUALLY TRYING IT OUT) but yes, I'd love to see slides!

[Nathan Neff]

I cried a bit when Fuzzy-finder wasn't mentioned in the slam of
Ctrl-T versus Ctrl-P or whatever the newest external-tool-laden
solutions are for
jumping to a file based on fuzzy matching)

I've always loved Fuzzy-finder because the author took that whole idea
to the max.

Anyway, this is a pipe-dream, but I'll someday present on fuzzy finder.

--Nate

[Bill Odom]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, this is a pipe-dream, but I'll someday present on fuzzy finder.
>

Make your dream a reality! How about next month?

[Nathan Neff]

What is the date for April?

By the way, Vim is better than SubethaEdit or Sub<WTF> edit because of this:

vim -O *

(Try it in a directory with 3 or 4 files in it)

--Nate

[Cryptic Swarm]

-p is also quite useful for opening more files and still being readable (opens in tabs)