From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:46:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87zk7v7but.fsf@gnuvola.org> References: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> <87mx3vzqd7.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ipejzjce.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <4FE45F11.2060105@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340369218 23196 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 12:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 14:46:57 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 1Si3GH-0006Lw-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:46:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si3GH-0006KO-I3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si3G9-0006Jj-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si3G4-00075W-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:46:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp209.alice.it ([82.57.200.105]:48937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Si3G4-00075J-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ambire (79.0.68.208) by smtp209.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4EF08A6314EB8BC0; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:46:36 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Si3GF-0000o5-72; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:46:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4FE45F11.2060105@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6h?= =?utf-8?Q?ler=22's?= message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:03:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.105 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:85369 Archived-At: () Andreas R=C3=B6hler () Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:03:29 +0200 Because it might exists reasons for the decline, which are to discuss before it's to late. Emacs is self-documenting, so perhaps that aspect has improved such that the (IMHO) meaningless metric of "query term frequency" becomes even more so. If a day arrives when no one asks Google about Emacs, i would do a little dance and drink a little water...