WHAT: St. Louis Vim Geeks - Unusually :normal - CoVim - Alone Together, Naturally WHERE: CAIT - The Center for the Application of Information Technology Classroom 24 5 N. Jackson Ave, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 WHEN: Wednesday, May 29th, at 6:30pm (that's tonight!) RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/vimgeeks/
Unusually :normal
The :normal command just doesn't get enough love. It's very useful—okay, practically mandatory—in Vim scripts, but that's not anywhere near the whole story. Steven Pritchard has been busily (re) discovering all sorts of uses for it lately, and will show us several examples (that he promises are "only slightly contrived") of its power. You might be surprised at how flexible this supposedly-simple command can be when combined with commands you already know.
CoVim - Alone Together, Naturally
Vim is eminently lovable, but one downside of loving it so much is that you become painfully aware of its (dare I say it) limitations. A pet limitation of mine: the lack of collaborative editing. Yes, yes, I know you can use screen or tmux to share a terminal session, but I want my keymaps, and my colorscheme, and my window layout, not whatever lowest-common-denominator subset my collaborator and I have barely agreed upon.
CoVim claims to solve this problem. Here's the description from one of its creators:
CoVim is a Vim Plugin that adds real-time collaboration to your favorite text editor. Think Google Docs for Vim.
Features:
- Allows multiple users to connect to the same document online
- Displays collaborators with uniquely colored cursors
- Works with your existing configuration
- Easy to set up & use
- And More!
It is difficult to express how much I want all those claims to be true, so we're going to put them to the test, starting with "Easy to set up & use."
Drinks and Food and Stuff
If you RSVP, then we'll have enough food to eat and drinks to drink, so don't forget to let us know you're coming. We'll also have a freebie or two from the nice folks at O'Reilly.
When and Where
We'll be meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, May 29th (a.k.a, tonight), 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.)
See you tonight!
Bill
