From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users? Date: 21 Feb 2004 14:38:05 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077371207 2294 80.91.224.253 (21 Feb 2004 13:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 14:46:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuXSr-0004oN-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AuXSH-0000JK-J5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:46:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee20ba6.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs Original-Followup-To: alt.religion.emacs Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20ba6.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.11.166) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077370685 49859985 I 62.226.11.166 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121097 alt.religion.emacs:8491 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17047 Brad Collins writes: > I'm writing a investment proposal and it would be helpful to include > the number of Emacs users (Xemacs etc) are out there. > > Are we talking in the tens, hundreds, a million or more? Two, and I am one of them. Apart from that, talking about Emacs being "usable" is an insult, much like calling your spouse "usable" and trying to estimate her worth by the number of other suitors. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Xpost and Fupto alt.religion.emacs -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum