From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE45F11.2060105@easy-emacs.de> References: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> <87mx3vzqd7.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ipejzjce.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340366632 2166 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 12:03:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:03:52 +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 Jun 22 14:03:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Si2ab-0000sx-Oz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:03:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si2ab-0004HO-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si2aT-0004HF-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:03:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si2aN-000561-88 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:03:41 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:59182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si2aM-00055Z-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9abec.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.171.236]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lkism-1S7sQ40wEu-00awx2; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:03:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: <87ipejzjce.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:uobviX4sk5qi1zDjqhBaeDxv4B3TKfEAJRpnAOqGbgu p6l0vpiEIs2WfoHRKw+fDDDcQqlJr2lss0FIpk9OKjtx6laOOo F+Wm/O4S4g/cm+viEMGiZPxlcJARpEmsp9XaaUwRlFUTsYAYJ/ NMaY99PvZUFGZfaqPOxKhAkhaoXkncVuWeDdm0WsjHwyFQRz/H MI/p8kQezUgdUXOhZOMqx3WM+WCiouCc+hCebBSO1N1/ji6tt6 VWduVEiY8k0yRv5E5s4Gbg5DSuB4QB1MeoSXn1B6OLmhou+P/w 4zd+/6A9d/CGlQZnSMx6SeRGQ3cRVI1CRvNeb5fl/UFKPBipbL MKHkwCQfwkeHgfTNpMh6oZDFMwgPCLNOI9bTXpR9B X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85367 Archived-At: Am 22.06.2012 13:17, schrieb Jeremiah Dodds: > Tom writes: > >> Jeremiah Dodds gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> I think it's more like "attracting more users is less of a priority than >>> appealing to what others are used to", there's plenty of improvement and >>> development of Emacs going on. >>> >> >> Yes, but if we take Google Trends as an indicator interest in Emacs >> is decreasing: >> >> http://www.google.com/trends/?q=emacs >> >> Shouldn't it be a concern? Shouldn't those kinds of improvements >> be given more priority which can increase the interest in Emacs? > > No, why should Emacs and users and developers of Emacs be concerned with > increasing the interest in Emacs? [ ... ] Because it might exists reasons for the decline, which are to discuss before it's to late. IMO it is late already... Cheers, Andreas