From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:03:38 -0800 Message-ID: <00aa01c95f00$fc27b830$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com><003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229378698 12723 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 22:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:04:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Jonathan Groll'" , "'Teemu Likonen'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 23:06:02 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 1LCLZ7-0003Zs-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:05:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLXv-0003Vo-Rf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLXW-0003Uu-0J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLXU-0003Rn-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49014 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLXU-0003Rf-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:51213 helo=rgminet11.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCLXT-0007jT-D4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by rgminet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBFM4l6u019100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:04:48 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt704.oracle.com (acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBFM3xEf018559; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:04:00 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.82.150) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:03:32 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> Thread-Index: Acle+W1GGsBWMfvkR/u+MrOXyPkZZgABk12w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4946D436.019B:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:60650 Archived-At: > Sadly, vim outvotes all flavours of GNU emacs on the above graph when > added to it (although to be fair, on Debian emacs is not installed by > default but some flavour of vi is). Hm. Dunno why that should make one sad. I would never use vi or vim (unless I had to), but I don't see why I should be sad or bothered if other people find it useful. One person likes to live in the forest; another prefers the city; a third the shore. Why the need to make Emacs the most popular? It's good to make Emacs better, but what's the popularity contest about? Perhaps Americans on average listen to Britney Spears more than Mozart or Muddy Waters. So what? On the other hand, info about the relative use of different Emacs versions is (mildly) interesting and might be helpful in some ways.