Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - which editor question

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> [2022-05-23 11:06]:
> > I remember at that time there was elvis, there is "ed" which I still
> > use today, including from within Emacs especially when I need to
> > change single line on a remote server, there is "Notepad" on Windows
> > which you forgot, that may be one of most used editors, "SimpleText"
> > was default in Classic Mac OS, TeachText, TextEdit, XEDIT, you should
> > include default editors from various OS-es and not just assume that
> > people come from newer times as Emacs users, to know just those new
> > editors.
> 
> I think this has been mentioned already in this thread, the question is
> what relevant information does the editor someone used 20+ years ago
> give, especially considering that the "other" field is a text field.
> 
> The best I can think of would be an interesting infographic visualising
> trends between how long someone has been using Emacs and what they used
> prior to that.

Yes, that is not so relevant IMHO, but then if one is asking for prior
editors, list should rather be extensive as to make it more specific.

List of text editors - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

Those issues most relevant would be IMHO usability, accessibility,
user interface, understanding and learning Emacs and problems in using
it. There is question covering it, but is general.

-- 
Jean

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