Here are the minutes for last night’s meeting:

We had ten people attend the meeting: Baird, Adam, Heather, Ed, Jason, Justin, smithj, and Chris.  We also had two first timers: Matt and David.

Ed gave an hour and fifteen minute presentation on VIM.  He covered VIM’s capabilities such as: syntax highlighting, macros, ergonomic movement, marks, editing multiple files at once, recording keystrokes, auto indentation, and file comparison (vimdiff).

Justin gave a fifty minute presentation on Emacs.  He covered Emacs’: IRC client, extensibility with lisp, web browser, syntax highlighting, spell checker, ability to do absolutely anything, planner, XHTML validation.

For those of you keeping score, that’s 8 highlights for both VIM and Emacs.  However, at the end of the meeting Ed tipped the scales by displaying VIM’s ASCII art Star Wars movie.

Because the presentations were so informative, the meeting lasted longer than Bali Hai was open.  So instead we finished off the night at Shanghai Express.