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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:35:55 -0800
> 
> My guess is that many (most?) of the most important Emacs features were not
> developed because users asked for them or because other UIs already had
> them. They were invented or discovered by Emacs user-developers (many by
> you!). Such stuff is being created everyday, with varying degrees of
> usefulness ;-).

Actually, as far as GUI features are concerned, AFAIR most of them
were added because other GUI programs had them and users expected
them.

Non-GUI features are another matter.