From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:43:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82pq8wv8zj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1339986746.80168.YahooMailNeo@web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
On Mon, Jun 18 2012,S Boucher wrote:
> I've been using emacs since as far back as 18.59. Still use it daily.
>
> However, I often wonder where Emacs is heading. Most places I work,
> I'm in the minority - and that's an understatement - as an Emacs user.
and it still is, after a decade of using it in my office space.
[snipped 5 lines]
> As I just noticed that Emacs 24 is now stable it still amazes me that
> there's still a lot of development going on, considering my sense of
> isolation as an Emacs user, and the impression that Emacs users is a
> dying breed.
>
With the features it already has, I wouldn't even mind if development
stopped, it still beats other editors hands down. If anything, I've
pretty much stopped checking out every new editor that comes out every
few years; they seem to implement something that is obvious or trivial
to summon up in Emacs(not that the actual development of said feature
was trivial in Emacs).
[snipped 4 lines]
sivaram
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 2:32 Emacs users a dying breed? S Boucher
2012-06-17 23:27 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-06-18 2:35 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2012-06-18 2:39 ` Jai Dayal
2012-06-18 4:05 ` Laurent Hoeltgen
[not found] ` <mailman.2955.1339990046.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-18 4:22 ` Dan Espen
2012-06-18 4:27 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2012-06-18 12:25 ` notbob
2012-06-18 19:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-06-18 19:25 ` notbob
2012-06-21 19:34 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.3203.1340307300.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-22 3:19 ` rusi
2012-06-23 22:10 ` notbob
2012-06-24 0:16 ` Dan Espen
2012-06-21 5:23 ` Dvorak Hemialgia
2012-06-18 11:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-06-18 12:28 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-06-18 17:13 ` Sivaram Neelakantan [this message]
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2012-06-18 10:53 Susan Cragin
2012-06-18 14:51 ` suvayu ali
[not found] ` <mailman.2981.1340031096.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-18 18:13 ` jidanni
2012-06-18 18:53 ` Ugly Sean
2012-06-19 14:03 ` Philipp Haselwarter
[not found] ` <mailman.3066.1340114632.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-19 14:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-06-19 16:17 ` notbob
2012-06-19 20:01 ` Joe Corneli
2012-06-18 19:05 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] <mailman.2952.1339986753.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-18 3:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-06-18 9:32 ` djc
2012-06-18 10:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-06-18 17:09 ` Ken Goldman
2012-06-21 15:27 ` rusi
2012-06-22 6:19 ` Tom
2012-06-22 8:45 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-06-22 9:40 ` Tom
2012-06-22 11:07 ` Bastien
2012-06-22 11:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-06-24 23:19 ` James Freer
2012-06-22 13:13 ` Tom
[not found] ` <mailman.3233.1340370922.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-22 14:12 ` Jay Belanger
2012-06-22 15:02 ` Tom
[not found] ` <mailman.3245.1340377350.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-22 18:25 ` John Bokma
2012-06-22 11:17 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-06-22 12:03 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-06-22 12:21 ` Richard Riley
2012-06-22 13:04 ` Jonathan Groll
2012-06-23 11:33 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-06-23 12:05 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-06-23 12:35 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-06-23 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-23 13:53 ` S Boucher
2012-06-23 12:37 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-25 19:00 ` Ken Goldman
2012-06-23 14:02 ` S Boucher
2012-06-22 12:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-06-22 13:27 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-06-22 13:45 ` Doug Lewan
2012-06-22 13:09 ` Tom
2012-07-02 11:36 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2012-06-22 13:15 Susan Cragin
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