From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340292623 21572 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2012 15:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:30:23 +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 Jun 21 17:30:22 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 1ShjKp-0000Y8-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShjKp-0004Ar-EG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:30:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.74.129.219 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340292425 10182 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2012 15:27:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.74.129.219; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192956 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:85352 Archived-At: Thanks for asking this question -- its of much concern to me also. On Jun 18, 7:32 am, S Boucher wrote: > I've been using emacs since as far back as 18.59. Still use it daily. I started gnu-emacs in 93 or so (must have been version 19.something). Earlier ('88) with pc-scheme I used edwin which was like a cut-down emacs. > > 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? :-) > > Regards, Do you think it may be good to trifurcate your 'question-mark' into these 3? 1. Revitalizing the emacs user base 2. Revitalizing the developer base 3. In the light of the huge changes in technology and 'demographic profile' of computers and their usage from 1980s to now, rethinking the priorities/direction of emacs