From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> <87mx3vzqd7.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340362170 32172 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 10:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:49:30 +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 Jun 22 12:49:30 2012 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 1Si1Qf-0001Sn-G8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:49:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si0MT-0006bn-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si0M9-00068T-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si0M2-0005KB-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si0M2-0005Jt-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Si0Lx-0002qe-8W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-76-167.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.76.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-76-167.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:40:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.76.167 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00) 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:85363 Archived-At: Jeremiah Dodds gmail.com> writes: > > I think it's more like "attracting more users is less of a priority than > appealing to what others are used to", there's plenty of improvement and > development of Emacs going on. > Yes, but if we take Google Trends as an indicator interest in Emacs is decreasing: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=emacs Shouldn't it be a concern? Shouldn't those kinds of improvements be given more priority which can increase the interest in Emacs?