From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Jonathan Groll'" <lists@groll.co.za>,
"'Teemu Likonen'" <tlikonen@iki.fi>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:03:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00aa01c95f00$fc27b830$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za>
> Sadly, vim outvotes all flavours of GNU emacs on the above graph when
> added to it (although to be fair, on Debian emacs is not installed by
> default but some flavour of vi is).
Hm. Dunno why that should make one sad. I would never use vi or vim (unless I
had to), but I don't see why I should be sad or bothered if other people find it
useful. One person likes to live in the forest; another prefers the city; a
third the shore.
Why the need to make Emacs the most popular? It's good to make Emacs better, but
what's the popularity contest about? Perhaps Americans on average listen to
Britney Spears more than Mozart or Muddy Waters. So what?
On the other hand, info about the relative use of different Emacs versions is
(mildly) interesting and might be helpful in some ways.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-15 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 2:53 is there summary of template systems for emacs? Xah Lee
2008-12-02 4:28 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-03 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-07 19:14 ` Peter Milliken
[not found] ` <mailman.2168.1228677280.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-14 21:37 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-15 18:24 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Leo
2008-12-15 18:45 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs Paul R
2008-12-15 18:48 ` is there summary of template systems for emacs? Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 20:21 ` Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 19:46 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2806.1229365513.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 19:31 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 20:42 ` Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 21:09 ` Jonathan Groll
2008-12-15 21:37 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2823.1229377291.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 22:28 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-15 22:59 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2834.1229381955.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 23:40 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 0:53 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2836.1229388824.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 1:01 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2845.1229416641.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:41 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 2:37 ` Charles philip Chan
2008-12-16 10:09 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:20 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.2843.1229395204.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:17 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 11:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.2853.1229428708.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 12:36 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 12:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.2855.1229431948.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 13:03 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 14:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.2858.1229436444.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 15:09 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 15:50 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 17:43 ` Andrea Vettorello
2008-12-16 16:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-16 16:21 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.2867.1229443519.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 17:15 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-17 1:35 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 16:56 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-17 1:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-17 7:43 ` Tim X
2008-12-17 14:17 ` B Smith-Mannschott
2008-12-15 23:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
[not found] ` <mailman.2835.1229385349.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:21 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 12:35 ` William Case
2008-12-15 22:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-12-15 22:07 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Lennart Borgman
2008-12-15 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2830.1229379766.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:33 ` Emacs's popularity Tim X
2008-12-16 13:18 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Jonathan Groll
2008-12-16 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:10 ` Sean Sieger
2008-12-18 16:30 ` David L
2008-12-18 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 16:53 ` David L
2008-12-19 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:37 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.2825.1229378627.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:22 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:56 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:49 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-16 2:10 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-12-15 21:28 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Richard Riley
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