From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:42 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1192794042.347905.100910@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <87hckotez0.fsf@linux.site> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192797671 8500 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 12:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:41:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 14:41:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IirA5-0005eh-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iir9x-0007qg-Nz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:41:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.6.200.207 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192794042 26625 127.0.0.1 (19 Oct 2007 11:40:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.6.200.207; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153052 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48557 Archived-At: On Oct 18, 4:54 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > roodwri...@ureach.com wrote: > > I'm the only one I know personally who uses Emacs, but I'm a > > writer, not a programmer. The only other person I know that > > used to use it is a nephew. But he works as a programmer and > > told me that peer-pressure forced him to go to Vi. > > Tell your poor nephew that he can use Emacs Viper mode. > > > Not much help. I also do not know anyone in person that uses emacs.. There are a bunch of VI users though, the Linux crowd. I guess it's because when you first meet Linux you use VI to edit the configuration files (because it's always there) and then it just sticks.. people don't go looking for something better (or different). The most skilled Ultraedit users are those who use Column-mode and maybe search-replace (once a day). "Look, my editor has generated the headers. Yeah, i just coded it..." "Look, these window shows matches on all buffers. I can just move with n/p and they show on the other window..." "Look, I can just send code to the lua process with C-x C-e" The following kind of dialog is also common: "Coworker: Ok, can you go back to somefile.x ?" "Me: Yeah" "Coworker: What is that?" "Me: somefile.x" "Coworker: Oh, ok, I didn't saw you switching" I love emacs. -Weber