From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:04:24 +0100 Message-ID: <8738o49kqv.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> References: <87pprkbodk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <5d0ea74d-527c-4c19-a9d6-596bec4a4c6b@googlegroups.com> <878uy2b59p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <9c485a2d-1e2a-4c38-b04a-db69db9b5bc2@googlegroups.com> <87r4btl8e5.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <87a9igcbht.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <20131012220155.GA20851@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381748693 27014 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2013 11:04:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:04:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 14 13:04:57 2013 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 1VVfxI-0005s6-Ap for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVfxH-0001us-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVfx2-0001ui-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:04:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVfww-0004wp-Dm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:04:40 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:49322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVfww-0004wJ-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VVfwr-0006tP-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:04:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (zerg32.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.65.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r9EB4TU1022000 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:04:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20131012220155.GA20851@www> (Christopher Ritsen's message of "Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:01:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:94007 Archived-At: Christopher Ritsen writes: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:06:54PM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote: >> But, as I say, there are more programmers than ever; I suspect that actual >> number of Emacs users is increasing. Especially since org-mode got invented >> which is bringing in lots of people. > > org-mode is the reason I started using emacs and was completely worth it. I use > both vim (2.5 years) and emacs (4 months) every day, which seems to be extremely > uncommon. It's not that uncommon I suspect. I use vim for most systems adminstration. I do as little sys admin as I can get away with, so I don't use vim every day! > (this is my first post to a listserv, let me know if I'm doing it > wrong.) Nope, everythings good so far! Phil