From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laurent Hoeltgen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:05:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4FDEA8F3.5090009@gmail.com> References: <1339986746.80168.YahooMailNeo@web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340000946 6916 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 06:29:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:29:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 08:29:06 2012 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 1SgVSQ-0001xL-QB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:29:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgVSQ-00044m-Nx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgTDI-0004KI-5n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgTDG-0003mw-2W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:48601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgTDF-0003eo-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so1113535wgb.0 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=O8/KZNhkmMIbX7A50dIUrfhCrDGMXTex/SG3su5rT+o=; b=jm7o29jHH8B/wYM1btPRY8KyUF91A+auWZ1CTGYosYaL2KOgDJLPl3lzgutVCxvuqW EUN8YBkoBPypCSCKK+nJIpRH0kbwk4KmWXpAUUn2AwdUkCoyqdP22nqN5it6WBbWKbBp CF3HWWh8UYImKHM9n/vgn/qpmY5Gf4FVi3NDHPpVFSXDRRgC+BLNJoPkBjDDOi4XVczs PiXyHIixxWsg3IHslIirPHn7bmSISVvA7HdwFR+/6r4Ggfppbg4i6wSKSYGJGS/kq9NB WUEUDh9SkJV9PB+nAKP/yCkDYpN8YWqAEIZdllj55Lmd6AxZFMUC+2sYMhfU8zrDglBp ubOw== Original-Received: by 10.180.83.196 with SMTP id s4mr20776379wiy.15.1339992311016; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.178.26] (p57B3A883.dip.t-dialin.net. [87.179.168.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n6sm39869459wie.7.2012.06.17.21.05.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:05:09 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1339986746.80168.YahooMailNeo@web161603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:28:47 -0400 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:85278 Archived-At: On 06/18/2012 04:32 AM, S Boucher wrote: > I've been using emacs since as far back as 18.59. Still use it daily. > > However, I often wonder where Emacs is heading. Most places I work, I'm in the minority - and that's an understatement - as an Emacs user. > > I learned Lisp because of Emacs and it's a cool language, but almost no one cares to learn Lisp. > > I can't live without Emacs, but in some areas Emacs tend to be lacking. > > As I just noticed that Emacs 24 is now stable it still amazes me that there's still a lot of development going on, considering my sense of isolation as an Emacs user, and the impression that Emacs users is a dying breed. > > Since this is a help group, am I required to end with a question mark? :-) > > Regards, > Hi, at my job there are about 4 Emacs (and roughly 6 vi) users (out of 12). Also, while being at the university, I was recommended Emacs in several courses. Considering the sheer amount of text editors that actually exist, I'd say, that the frequency at which you encounter emacs, is a good sign for its popularity and large user-base. Regards, Laurent