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: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <05441e1e-7f74-44ae-ad1e-17c4fc6b3784@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> <9c485a2d-1e2a-4c38-b04a-db69db9b5bc2@googlegroups.com> <87r4btl8e5.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> <87a9igcbht.fsf@zerg32.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381632016 16089 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2013 02:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 02:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 04:40:21 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 1VVBbQ-0006yZ-EY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 04:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60041 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVBbQ-0002D8-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:40:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.43.44.6 with SMTP id ue6mr11750062icb.11.1381631764228; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:36:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.9.33 with SMTP id w1mr249692iga.12.1381631764069; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!o2no1773318qas.0!news-out.google.com!9ni31659qaf.0!nntp.google.com!o2no1773303qas.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=59.95.19.14; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.19.14 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 02:36:04 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201707 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:93976 Archived-At: On Sunday, October 13, 2013 3:31:55 AM UTC+5:30, Christopher Ritsen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:06:54PM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote: > > > But, as I say, there are more programmers than ever; I suspect that actual > > number of Emacs users is increasing. Especially since org-mode got invented > > which is bringing in lots of people. > > org-mode is the reason I started using emacs and was completely worth it. I use > both vim (2.5 years) and emacs (4 months) every day, which seems to be extremely > uncommon. (this is my first post to a listserv, let me know if I'm doing it > wrong.) Hi Christopher! Good to hear your voice -- you are welcome here! What do you use emacs/vi for?