From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> <87ljuh86il.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229385378 975 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 23:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:56:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 00:57:22 2008 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 1LCNJR-0007MR-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:57:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCNIF-0006Io-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCNHv-0006IQ-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCNHs-0006Hc-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50134 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCNHs-0006HZ-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55156 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCNHs-0006kx-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LCNHl-00077m-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:55:37 +0000 Original-Received: from 47.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.43.53.47]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:55:37 +0000 Original-Received: from ofv by 47.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:55:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EID6n7TLJM840YBX2r5g9CvdlRg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60659 Archived-At: Teemu Likonen writes: [snip] > But Vim is not only installed; it's really used a lot.[snip] Inspecting the atime of emacs and vim executables on my machine, one could conclude that I frequently use vim and almost never emacs. The true is the opposite: I start emacs just after login and don't close it until the next time that I'm in the mood of updating to the last CVS version, or until the next reboot. This can mean several months of intense use. OTOH, whenever I need to tweak some file on /etc, I do a sudo vim /etc/whatever -- Oscar