From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Personal approach for collecting Emacs usage statistics advice? Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:39:29 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404326429 28865 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2014 18:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 02 20:40:23 2014 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 1X2PS7-0006xi-3Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2PS6-0001Nk-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aabc59b8ce9cdce0c2995912677c9e55"; logging-data="28035"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yDqQbGtJCTzcJHOPltLsctprLGZnFTZ4=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hVBmh+EHDuoJCHPsJ0v+1TzAF60= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206245 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:98516 Archived-At: Grant Rettke 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