Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - which editor question

[Philip Kaludercic]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> ** Which editor did you use before you started using Emacs? :RadioSelect:
> - [ ] None
> - [ ] Vim
> - [ ] VS Code
> - [ ] IntelliJ
> - [ ] Atom
> - [ ] Eclipse
> - [ ] Nodepad++
> - [ ] *other*
>
> People use Emacs for years, you have forgotten to include "vi" -- Vim
> is rather the new "vi", those people using Emacs for 20+ years did not
> possibly use VS Code or IntelliJ or such new editors. 
>
> You should include the old editors, and not just let it as a list of
> modern editors.
>
> I remember at that time there was elvis, there is "ed" which I still
> use today, including from within Emacs especially when I need to
> change single line on a remote server, there is "Notepad" on Windows
> which you forgot, that may be one of most used editors, "SimpleText"
> was default in Classic Mac OS, TeachText, TextEdit, XEDIT, you should
> include default editors from various OS-es and not just assume that
> people come from newer times as Emacs users, to know just those new
> editors.

I think this has been mentioned already in this thread, the question is
what relevant information does the editor someone used 20+ years ago
give, especially considering that the "other" field is a text field.

The best I can think of would be an interesting infographic visualising
trends between how long someone has been using Emacs and what they used
prior to that.