From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:19:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377721218 2995 80.91.229.3 (28 Aug 2013 20:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:20:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 22:20:20 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 1VEmE0-000117-7l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:20:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmDz-00058h-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmDi-000536-QJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmDZ-00014X-Qd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmDZ-000149-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VEmDX-0000f2-Br for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:19:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: 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:93141 Archived-At: On 8/26/2013 6:43 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=emacs editor,eclipse ide > > Since 2004 Eclipse (Emac's primary competiton for my use case) has lost some > 71% of its "trendiness" according to Google. But Emacs has lost more, > dropping from 25 to 4 (84% less). > > Does this Google Trends graph reflect reality? This trend can be interpreted however you like. E.g., People don't search for emacs because it already comes with Linux distros. One has to download Eclipse. Installing emacs is trivial. Installing Eclipse on Windows requires googling for help. emacs is easy to use and the docs are helpful. Eclipse users need more help. And finally ... emacs users use bing. :-)