From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229375418 1473 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 21:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:10:18 +0000 (UTC) To: Teemu Likonen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 22:11:20 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 1LCKiH-0000Th-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:10:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41410 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCKh5-0008Sr-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCKgh-0008RD-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCKgg-0008QM-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44242 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCKgg-0008QJ-Kb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([67.18.176.185]:54844) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCKgg-0007p1-As for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BBA43258F0; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:09:07 +0200 (SAST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (Linux mail 2.6.18.8-linode10 i686) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:60644 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 07:31:21PM +0000, Teemu Likonen wrote: >I don't know but at least among Debian GNU/Linux users Emacs's >popularity doesn't seem to have decreased. Here's a Debian popularity >contest[1] graph that shows the popularity of packages emacs21, >emacs21-nox, emacs22, emacs22-nox and emacs22-gtk: > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/55stry [2] > 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). Cheers, Jonathan