[BLU/Officers] Scheduling issue

Sat Feb 15 08:57:16 EST 2020

Hi John,
Here is an abstract:
As the subject says, 'Atom is a Hackable Editor for the 21st Century'.
Jerry is a long time EMACS user, but while at Red Hat, he found that EMACS
was not doing a good job with Python. Another developer suggested Atom.
Atom is very customizable. First, for Python, it has a number of packages
that provide syntax checking, automatic indentation as well as the ability
to execute code from the console. Atom also has packages to support other
languages. The things I like about Atom is that it can display a list of
files and their status, and a number of panes. Jerry will demonstrate how
he works on applications and displays code in multiple panes. In addition,
Atom supports GIT and SVN. With git you can do a an add, commit, a pull or
a push. He will demonstrate that on one of his projects.
Atom is fully open source. In addition to Python, Atom supports many other
languages, including C, C++, Perl, JavaScript, Java, and many more. Jerry
will show a list from the language indicator. Atom supports many different
themes. Jerry uses the Atom Dark, but he will demonstrate others. He will
also discuss the package manager. He will also demonstrate how to run the
application being edited.

Atom can be installed directly from the Fedora repositories via the 'dnf
install' command or the software center, and in Ubuntu via the 'apt-get'
command or via the Ubuntu Software Center. It may be downloaded from
https://atom.io/. For more detailed directions see the Atom Flight Manual:
https://flight-manual.atom.io/. In many cases, when you install an
application from a vendor repository, that version might be somewhat out of
date. However, atom will notify you if there are updates to both Atom or
your packages.

Jerry has tried many different editors over the years. More recently he
tried Pycharm, a popular Python-oriented IDE. Pycharm is not open source,
and the free version lacks many useful features. Several years ago, Jerry
tested Geany, but decided that Atom was the better system.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 8:21 AM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> Great! I put in a "Details to follow" placeholder for now,  I also updated
> the Google calendar to match.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 6:33 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes. I'll send you a blurb later today
>>
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>> Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
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>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 12:20 AM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Jerry.
>>>
>>> Given that it's already Saturday, should I add your Atom talk to the
>>> calendar? Can you send me a blurb to describe the talk?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:35 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like atom. Being a long term emacs user, at red had I found that
>>>> emacs was not very python friendly. What I liked about emacs was being able
>>>> to have multiple panes open. Atom is very python friendly. But there are
>>>> packages for other languages.
>>>>
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>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
>>>> Boston Linux and Unix
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>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:17 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, Atom looks interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:45 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll see what I can do. I am preparing to show the atom editor for
>>>>>> Natick Foss next month. While that presentation is a 30 min max, I could
>>>>>> extend it to an hour.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone else have an idea for a last minute speaker.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll hold off on sending my meeting announcement.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Jerry Feldman <gaf at gapps.blu.org>
>>>>>> Boston Linux and Unix
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>>>>>> 5846
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 4:39 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm tied up with preparing for Boskone; I have no time to find a
>>>>>>> last-minute speaker.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jerry, can you coordinate finding a replacement? I'll check my email
>>>>>>> at the hotel, so I can update the calendar when the details are ready.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 🙁
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:55 PM Federico Lucifredi <
>>>>>>>> flucifredi at acm.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello Folks,
>>>>>>>>>   Work has me landing in NYC one day before than planned... and
>>>>>>>>> this ruins our plans for a Scale Preview on Wednesday :-/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   Sorry for the disruption. Can’t say no to Big Blue, like several
>>>>>>>>> of you know firsthand...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best-F
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Treasurer, Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org
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