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: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4d1d175f-0d93-4c2c-87a5-cae5739f72c4@googlegroups.com> References: <87ppsyu1l0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87k3j6tye3.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377663017 29129 80.91.229.3 (28 Aug 2013 04:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:10:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 06:10:19 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 1VEX5G-00071k-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VEX5F-0000du-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:10:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.163.6 with SMTP id ye6mr7047350pab.17.1377662920491; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:08:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.3.70 with SMTP id a6mr814551iga.16.1377662920239; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!n2no5172032pbg.1!news-out.google.com!z6ni20003pbu.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no5848920qab.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=59.95.8.222; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.8.222 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:08:40 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200863 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:93131 Archived-At: [To the OP]: In 1990 the main competition to emacs was vi In 2000 it was Word Today it is google-docs. Which also suggests a direction for increasing the emacs user-base -- add an org-mode input mode to google docs. [My own estimates] : This will increase the number of people who have heard of emacs 100-fold. If even 1% of those start to actually use emacs, it will double the user-base