Re: Personal approach for collecting Emacs usage statistics advice?

[despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen)]

Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Lately I've been curious whether or not my actual Emacs keymapping
> usage actually reflects how I think
> I use it. What I mean is that I have a goal of mapping frequently used
> operations to easily-accessible keybindings on the keyboard. What I
> plan to do is to record my usage so that I can study it to find
> mapping
> decisions that I got right, and wrong, and also identify things that I
> use that I should be mapping closer to home.
>
> The simplest approach would be to use a keylogger, or advice inside of Emacs.
>
> What I am curious about is your approach if you had done, or would do,
> something like this, and your thoughts an ideas.

Xah Lee did quite a bit of work on this.
I suggest you find his site, and read up on what he's done.
For a while he was providing some lisp and asking people to forward
him their data.  I think his code is still around.

-- 
Dan Espen