[Gloucs] Another idea for a talk - was Re: Emacs - find-grep-dired case insensitivity

[David Haynes]

Hi everyone, I'm a new recruit to the LUG and will hopefully be attending
future talks. I would also really like to see a talk on Emacs. Been
alt-tabbing between gedit and the terminal for far too long :-).

David

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Anthony Edward Cooper <
aecooper at coosoft.plus.com> wrote:

> Being an Emacs user myself I think that's a great idea.
>
> Pencil this in for say July unless one of the June speakers can't make it
> (myself + Andy Cater).
>
> Certainly things I have been curious about but never got round to
> investigating is stuff like code autocompletion with prototype hinting (like
> MS-Visual-Studio) :-))... (Cat firmly placed amongst the pigeons!).
>
> Dare I say is there a vim user that could do likewise :-)?
>
> Tony.
>
>
> Andrew Ford wrote:
>
>> Phil's question suggests another idea for a talk.  I realize that I
>> started using Emacs in 1986, so I have now been using it for a quarter of a
>> century and essentially live in it at work.   I could give a talk/demo on
>> using Emacs, starting from the basics and including such things as
>> integration with compilers and debuggers, running shells and sending email
>> from within Emacs and a bit about customization (the list goes on... and
>> on).   Perhaps we could end with a discussion about the relative merits of
>> Emacs versus certain other editors ;-)   (note that my second favorite
>> editor is "ed" - and I mean that seriously!)
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 24/05/11 23:15, Phil Ironside wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for the reply. I am learning alot more about Emacs at
>>> the moment and seeing how you tackled my request has helped me see how I
>>> need to approach it.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:06:37 +0100
>>> Andrew Ford<A.Ford at ford-mason.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  (setq find-grep-options "-q -i")
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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