From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:22:29 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ipepgv7u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339989913 8040 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 03:25:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:25:13 +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 05:25:13 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 1SgSaW-0002NH-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgSaW-0004CU-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:25:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: individual.net r/5du9I0z+yg2NaVCyF8OgS+ADtE/2284W2CskTuSLi2/PRj4bTAtiooClTZ1v2Gd+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:YzZhZTkzZDNhZmJjZmJkZjc4YzMyZjZkMjRhM2RhZGEyMmZjMGQ4NQ== sha1:LWHHstrjh3JifNjHJeyNJWvTnTA= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192877 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:85273 Archived-At: S Boucher writes: > 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? > :-) All the people who matter do use emacs. It's not so much that there are not a lot of emacs users, as that there are a lot of computer users in general. When you increase the number of computer users up to the population of the planet, you cannot expect emacs users to increase proportionnaly. So yes, in a random group of people, it's almost certain you will be the only emacs user. But in absolute number there are a lot of emacs users, and enough to feed its continuing develpment. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.