From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:56:55 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87zlyfue4o.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <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 1192820098 24468 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 18:54:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 20:54:57 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 1Iiwzo-0000uO-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:54:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiwza-0001za-PP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiwzK-0001y9-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiwzF-0001wg-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiwzF-0001wd-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiwzE-0003I6-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debby.local.net (drms-590c79ae.pool.einsundeins.de [89.12.121.174]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML2xA-1Iiwz20q13-0001Vy; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:54:08 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Iix1j-0007yT-IQ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:56:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87bqawo1pa.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Thu\, 18 Oct 2007 16\:57\:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+jXwWYcb4fYFiPOZlrOhCcJFyY40gjdbwxa/O Kqvr0JSCXSrxT4RpWCWSQyhV1oe4u2DYrkdKZ9i7bVzJ9d8kDO 6+9AIKnUZLfn9PWbSM0pffal5USm+mA X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:48595 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > 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? I think http://popcon.debian.org/ can be a good quantitative source, if you know how to supply your queries (unfortunately I don't). -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany