From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Emacs User Survey 2020 Results Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:08:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: <27f2aad6-2c1e-1127-bce6-5e96a241db56@gmx.com> <87a6umvgqg.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35596"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Adrien Brochard , emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 00:34:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kn8yb-00098p-LT for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53560 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kn8ya-0003Qz-Di for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kn8aD-0006Ya-Rg for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:65262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kn8a9-0005f5-VC for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0B9N8wM4021346 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 23:08:58 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0B9N9ZP4014319; Wed, 9 Dec 2020 23:09:35 GMT In-Reply-To: <87a6umvgqg.fsf@gnus.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:34:10 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:470 Archived-At: > > * That the GUI is only used by 3-4x as many people as the terminal > In fact the results show that almost everyone use the GUI (~7000 on ~7300) and among them some also use the TUI (~2000). > > * That the default keybindings are just 2x as popular as the vim-a-like > key bindings. This one is really surprising to me, because we seldom > get bug reports about things in that corner. But perhaps they just work > perfectly? > Amusingly the first comment on Reddit says almost the opposite: "I'm surprised [...] There are almost twice as many default keybinding users are Evil users. I feel like I read about so many people using Evil keybindings that I imagined it would be a lot more." ;-) > > * That ~two thirds of people who responded uses magit. I knew it was > popular, but that's astounding. > I'm not sure how to interpret this, Magit is a "favorite package" for ~2500 respondents, but ~5000 respondents use it. Does that mean that half of its users do not like it?