From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:34:28 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87d4vbz0rf.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192801332 21501 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 13:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:42:12 +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 15:42:12 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 1Iis70-00024y-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iis6s-0006rJ-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:41:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1192801038 6765 132.183.29.121 (19 Oct 2007 13:37:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:37:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+FDYU1WPFUjJa4sk086CTe3OscY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153060 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:48564 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > Hi all, > > I recently received an e-mail from a friend (no matter what was the > discussion about) saying that he wanted his views to reach a lot of > users, not only the "niche" of Emacs users. My story: I'm one of two people that I know use Emacs, the other one uses XEmacs. I don't know many Unix users other than myself, however the one really devoted one uses vi; he's been using Unix almost exclusively since middle school (he and I are the same age, so around 1993). Since he's a mathematician, uses LaTeX, and programs in CAML, I entirely expected him to use Emacs, but I was wrong. My favorite "Linux encounter" was at a holiday party I met a sysadmin from MIT; first he gasped when I said that I love Slackware, then we started talking about email clients and I said that use Emacs to read my mail. His reaction: "Oh, you're one of those." He used vi vi vi. This poll from last year shows vi by a large margin; Emacs is actually third behind Kate. Of course, I must add that I'm always surprised by how much software caters to Emacs; I had only thought about using Emacs when I saw on the R FAQ "Should I run R in Emacs?" I thought "You can do that? I should give Emacs another look..." I'm currently designing some software to interact through Emacs. I love it and I think a lot of other people would if they knew about it. Joel http://trashbird1240.blogspot.com -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109