From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:19:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87txgopepc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87pprkbodk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381468710 9254 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2013 05:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:18:30 +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 11 07:18:34 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 1VUV7R-0006Dv-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:18:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUV7R-0000BB-3n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUV7D-0000AN-3u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUV78-0007Q8-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:18:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUV77-0007Q3-Rq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VUV76-00060F-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 89.244.130.249 ([89.244.130.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 89.244.130.249 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:18:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.244.130.249 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:H8AOitO+Hlw1TBv4e9EAuKvpXEE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:93936 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Bob Proulx writes: > > The only group that I see a small hope for are > professional writers, translators, and such. I don't > know how they typically do their stuff, but I think they > would *love* Emacs! I'm a writer *and* a translator, and I do everything in Emacs. Specifically, I do all my writing in org mode, which is shaping up to be something like Emacs' "killer app," if that concept applies. I think org mode is doing quite a bit to draw in new users, particularly those who don't necessarily count as "real" programmers. E