From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9c485a2d-1e2a-4c38-b04a-db69db9b5bc2@googlegroups.com> References: <87pprkbodk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <5d0ea74d-527c-4c19-a9d6-596bec4a4c6b@googlegroups.com> <878uy2b59p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381383015 5493 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2013 05:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:30:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 10 07:30:19 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 1VU8pG-00021d-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44930 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VU8pG-0008KP-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:30:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.198.197 with SMTP id v45mr10220804yhn.26.1381382730992; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:25:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.152.105 with SMTP id ux9mr252310igb.13.1381382730956; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!a6no7800948qak.0!news-out.google.com!9ni24092qaf.0!nntp.google.com!i2no3729336qav.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.49.114; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.49.114 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:25:30 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201637 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:93906 Archived-At: On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Emanuel Berg [2013-10-09 21:41:45 +02:00] wrote: > > > > Evans Winner writes: > >> Is it [Emacs] less popular than vi? That's hard to believe. > > > > Yeah, I don't believe that either. > > > That's hard to measure. One way for estimating popularity is Debian's > automatic popularity contest. > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=emacsen-common%2Cvim-common&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 Thanks for that picture. It confirms my personal hunchy feel that 20 years ago emacs-vi were kind of neck to neck; whereas today emacs is increasingly in the category: "Whazzat??" for young programmers.