From: "paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Mattie" <codermattie@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:17:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e30f0f320803261517r3253a804k704e4c2a49c45412@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080325175140.2bcbc83e@reforged>
2008/3/26, Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>:
> Here are some basic questions I thought of to give some context.
> It's hard to ask directly for the information you want without loading the questions, so I fell
> back on some basic background information as a starting place.
I think it is a good start. I can't wait to see what the shape of
distribution of age is.
>
> What was the motive or appeal that sustained your climb of the Emacs learning curve ?
>
> What quality keeps Emacs indispensable ?
>
> Years of Emacs Experience ?
>
> Programming Experience: 0-9
>
> Primary applications, or what do you use Emacs for pre-dominantly ? apps,web dev, books ?
>
> Native language ?
>
> Age ?
>
> use of mouse ? 0-4
>
> Most useful Modes ?
>
> Least useful Modes ?
>
> Size of .emacs ?
>
> How do you go about learning a new Emacs feature you need ?
>
> subscribed to emacs-devel y/n
>
> subscribed to help-gnu-emacs y/n
>
> systems you use Emacs on ? (autoconf triplets)
>
> Emacs version ?
>
> External Elisp packages used: (significant to daily workflow at least)
>
> Most difficult command to learn ?
>
> Easiest command to learn ?
>
> command with best DWIM ?
>
> command with worst DWIM ?
>
> Use marks for ? (what is a mark should be a valid answer)
>
> favorite movie/book ? (throw at least one fun question in just so people don't get bored filling out a survey.
> Could do the "top 5" for the fun question).
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 23:13 gathering data on how people use Emacs Mike Mattie
2008-03-24 23:37 ` paul r
2008-03-25 1:17 ` Bastien
2008-03-25 2:46 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 23:18 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 23:32 ` Bastien
2008-03-26 0:51 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 11:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-26 21:23 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 22:17 ` paul r [this message]
2008-03-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
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2008-03-26 0:21 Don Saklad
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