From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:43:36 +0530 Message-ID: <82pq8wv8zj.fsf@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: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340039652 24694 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 17:14:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:14:12 +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 19:14:11 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 1SgfWk-0008IT-EV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:14:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55145 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgfWk-0000ug-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgfWa-0000tv-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgfWU-0005Fk-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgfWU-0005FZ-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SgfWO-0007cZ-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:13:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.172.184.153 ([122.172.184.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:13:48 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.172.184.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:13:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.172.184.153 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110019 (No Gnus v0.19) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ieXqklpymXPXyC3bVPPQTNzm7Io= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:85288 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 18 2012,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. and it still is, after a decade of using it in my office space. [snipped 5 lines] > 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. > With the features it already has, I wouldn't even mind if development stopped, it still beats other editors hands down. If anything, I've pretty much stopped checking out every new editor that comes out every few years; they seem to implement something that is obvious or trivial to summon up in Emacs(not that the actual development of said feature was trivial in Emacs). [snipped 4 lines] sivaram --