From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87bqawo1pa.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192719478 32280 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2007 14:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:57:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 18 16:57:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiWom-0000RH-Ma for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiWof-0000rO-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiWoQ-0000rJ-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiWoO-0000r3-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiWoO-0000r0-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiWoO-0007vF-0y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so174941nfh for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:57:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:to:subject:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:sender; bh=QG+BGVS27C9wGvZf0Mulrzh48aS9Y+UZGHV8k29PlvU=; b=g9j2p4L/Gq6Qn2EadhwfxjBNIxd9D8Y1r2tAEZx+n4wsDbmW0vkH3b0FLFg8qRzMFDmYKC5Wc5eVEPEe/0Q/vp1wVdTaxqSy2ndRsxUKxwBgD9qYEZB+Xe64zsJ2lJXrfDzxbXciVKRnZ9Qp5zXX6MxbVrPuIeItHl3Pt20m9Zo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:sender; b=dEMnR2mDmOupWenU9K3a4EFTOqHd5Gq5rCkaIFOyHYqzKk+dhhIlUtZZ2IocXhe2ikHdnQbIpN2wHts9joP+6P6W1s5ogheG1O/GYEYeT9pwtGO0R5s5xZ+iyjnu42mfPx7NgqB7nT2CO4i3kSCkbKAMnUWzRgap2/yTda5Mi/8= Original-Received: by 10.82.154.12 with SMTP id b12mr1270149bue.1192719442561; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bzg.ath.cx ( [81.99.213.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm1141286nfu.2007.10.18.07.57.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by bzg.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC2CF158ABF; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:21 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48529 Archived-At: Hi all, I recently received an e-mail from a friend (no matter what was the discussion about) saying that he wanted his views to reach a lot of users, not only the "niche" of Emacs users. Then I started to figure out how large is this "niche". Of course, the word "niche" implies that we are able to define something like the ecological "competitors" (what are the softwares around Emacs?) which might not be trivial given Emacs is so versatile. Anyway, I've found Xah Lee's list here: http://xahlee.org/emacs/text_editor_trends.html But I don't know exactly how it was produced: how did he use Google Trends to get it? Other request: where could I possibly find absolute numbers? Is it possible to infer them somehow? Thanks for any hint, -- Bastien