From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:41:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <878uy2b59p.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87pprkbodk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <5d0ea74d-527c-4c19-a9d6-596bec4a4c6b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381347927 7052 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2013 19:45:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:45:27 +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 Oct 09 21:45:33 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 1VTzhK-000485-TW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 21:45:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTzhK-00018I-7k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:45:30 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykrfXVPR0fRinOr2zzeYktBTu7U= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201627 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:93897 Archived-At: Evans Winner writes: > Perhaps someone ought to take out an ad for Emacs when > people search for "Eclipse." Oh no, don't do that, then we will have an invasion of Java/OO people :) > Is it [Emacs] less popular than vi? That's hard to > believe. Yeah, I don't believe that either. Vim is even more focused on programming. Or, to be exact, Emacs is as much focused on programming. Only Emacs is focused on everything else, too: Usenet, mail, the file system, you name it. (Or so I've heard. I didn't use Vim to a fraction of my Emacs time, so any Vim user may elaborate on this.) > vi really originated as a practical joke. Some people say you type less with Vim, that Vim is faster, and, you configure/extend *less*, so you actually get more *work* done with much less strain on your fingers. (Again, rumors perhaps.) But... I couldn't live without configuration/extension. That's what I love about Emacs. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573