From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "paul r" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:37:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080324161300.191df4b6@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206401894 17312 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2008 23:38:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:38:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs developers To: "Mike Mattie" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 00:38:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdwFX-0000ND-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:38:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwEw-0002CM-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwEt-0002C9-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwEs-0002Br-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwEs-0002Bm-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdwEr-0008Ql-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so2945536fga.30 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ZAAuhv8idOd4AouEgSgs1mU5rTa1PqVArkgyXCGy3t0=; b=SCRv1Eyb6KUFrQVzieV+ZIJbkfTxn3fs3VZ8SQRxr12+WKHWEeBR3mLRy8xX4IAXVLT+gUIOPP7xwKt0IzBnf0rfVIZdIUzCTohICMx478pWt06QbLYTBYTWG3D6f+jrvyC56IEBRw5iFXjacE7aJ00xLWh/b4BJ13CSI03vY8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aDmFOKJfcFiYC6eghl0K4R4Dof/t8imj1I1prq6bZ9Ve6rLot2NYGPuwW0gUng4EYc1lbv4EZHR0ObS6RkA6ClBn254U+2tUzK71Efx2wSV9h3ZGBOoVRys6upVQv2x1ky6I497/wpaxsNfzPCJGCvcPWgefuKR/BjbrXNwkOtQ= Original-Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr18905355buc.11.1206401879979; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.82.175.3 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:37:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080324161300.191df4b6@reforged> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93351 Archived-At: 2008/3/25, Mike Mattie : > Hello, > > With the recent discussion on how people use Emacs I have been pondering how to acquire use data that would illuminate > the discussion with fact. > > Emacs has a nifty facility for recording the input events: these keystroke dumps, if suitably scrubbed of personal > data, and keyed to an anonymous ID could be used to populate a database that could be mined for the kind of information > needed in the discussions on user interface design. > > WDOT ? How about making a simple web page, with 3 fields : 1) How many years have you been using emacs 2) Paste your .emacs here 3) Write here any suggestion about default settings It would be easy to see what people activate in their .emacs, and in which proportion. A email confirmation mechanism would be welcome to prevent people from being tempted to send 1000 differents automatically generated .emacs with evertime (transient-mark-mode 1) in them :)