From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325175140.2bcbc83e@reforged> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prtixtvx.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:32:02 +0100
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Polling the users is not a matter of simply counting votes.
> > The most important part of the answer is "why".
> > What is the scenario in which a certain feature is helpful
> > or inconvenient? What aspect of it is helpful or
> > inconvenient?
>
> Fully agreed.
>
> I suggested simple questions, not simple answers.
>
> > Thus, trying to use better technology to count votes is missing
> > the point of the poll.
>
> Yes. The whole point of using the form I proposed is precisely to get
> detailed comments and scenarii, not raw yes/no.
>
> If people suggest a list of questions and associated fields for such a
> poll, I'd happily draft a new one.
>
Here are some basic questions I thought of to give some context.
It's hard to ask directly for the information you want without loading the questions, so I fell
back on some basic background information as a starting place.
What was the motive or appeal that sustained your climb of the Emacs learning curve ?
What quality keeps Emacs indispensable ?
Years of Emacs Experience ?
Programming Experience: 0-9
Primary applications, or what do you use Emacs for pre-dominantly ? apps,web dev, books ?
Native language ?
Age ?
use of mouse ? 0-4
Most useful Modes ?
Least useful Modes ?
Size of .emacs ?
How do you go about learning a new Emacs feature you need ?
subscribed to emacs-devel y/n
subscribed to help-gnu-emacs y/n
systems you use Emacs on ? (autoconf triplets)
Emacs version ?
External Elisp packages used: (significant to daily workflow at least)
Most difficult command to learn ?
Easiest command to learn ?
command with best DWIM ?
command with worst DWIM ?
Use marks for ? (what is a mark should be a valid answer)
favorite movie/book ? (throw at least one fun question in just so people don't get bored filling out a survey.
Could do the "top 5" for the fun question).
Cheers,
Mike Mattie
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 23:13 gathering data on how people use Emacs Mike Mattie
2008-03-24 23:37 ` paul r
2008-03-25 1:17 ` Bastien
2008-03-25 2:46 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 23:18 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 23:32 ` Bastien
2008-03-26 0:51 ` Mike Mattie [this message]
2008-03-26 11:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-26 21:23 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 22:17 ` paul r
2008-03-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
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2008-03-26 0:21 Don Saklad
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