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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254716 Archived-At: On Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:57:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > If you don't want these features yourself and nobody else in the proje= ct > > wants them either, the only way I can think of making a compelling > > argument for people to develop those feature is to ask real people and > > get real responses. I am fairly confident that if you had a testimony = or > > user-test from actual people stating that a feature is missing, then > > people here would help develop that feature. > > I agree. Before we put time into developing a feature, we should verify > that many people would like it. > > Speaking of which, it would be useful to sit down with a new user just > trying Emacs and see what perse actually complains about or requests. > If several people do this, it could give us useful ideas of what changes > would actually make Emacs more appealing to new users. How about using existing download statistics from some source like MELPA? That would be more empirical / less anecdotal, and would cast a wider net. Other data sources might be link-click-quantity from github or google analytics or stackexchange. =2D- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0