From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs users a dying breed? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340346002 9549 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2012 06:20:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:20:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 08:20:01 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 1ShxDq-0006jU-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShxDq-0002MW-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53355) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShxDj-0002MQ-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShxDf-000605-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShxDf-0005zq-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ShxDa-0006N9-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-76-167.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.76.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-76-167.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:19:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.76.167 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00) 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:85358 Archived-At: rusi gmail.com> writes: > > 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 > > There were discussions about this in the past. Apparently, the emacs developers consider attracting more users/developers less of a priority than keeping emacs as it is, that is they are not willing to overhaul emacs just to attract users who are used to modern IDEs. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/126892