From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:09:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ipepgv7u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <4FDEF5A4.1020005@resiak.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340042718 18746 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 18:05:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:05:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 20:05:18 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 1SggKC-0001em-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:05:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SggKC-0006ly-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SggK6-0006kj-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SggK4-0003y2-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SggK4-0003xY-Jm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SggK0-0001Hq-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:05:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FDEF5A4.1020005@resiak.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:85290 Archived-At: On 6/18/2012 5:32 AM, djc wrote: > > I'm deeply appreciative of the people who continue to work on emacs. > I couldn't live without it, and if development ever comes to a halt, > I'll probably just keep using the last version forever. I agree. It's been stable for as long as I can remember. For me, the big change came at 19 (X windows support and colors). I think that was when the Windows version came along as well. Everything after that was polish, since I don't use international character sets or images.