From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:20:23 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <87d4vbz0rf.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192803710 30936 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 14:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:21:50 +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 Oct 19 16:21:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iisj3-0004DX-Cu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iisiv-0001cK-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IisiX-0001Tx-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IisiV-0001RW-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IisiU-0001RL-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IisiU-0008Uy-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IisiI-0007Mx-2f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:20:34 +0000 Original-Received: from khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp ([59.140.5.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:20:34 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:20:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: khp059140005246.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ellocDR8KORAQFznE9kIOS6vAhE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48569 Archived-At: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > My story: I'm one of two people that I know use Emacs, the other one > uses XEmacs. Okay, I have a somewhat different story. Once when i was in a small company, the CEO himself uses Emacs, so does vice CEO. And they both encourge every programmer in the company to use Emacs. Thus, the result is that a total of nearly ten programmers all uses Emacs... -- William http://williamxu.net9.org