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Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs)
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Tim X |
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Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) |
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Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:22:56 +1100 |
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Sadly, vim outvotes all flavours of GNU emacs on the above graph when
>> added to it (although to be fair, on Debian emacs is not installed by
>> default but some flavour of vi is).
>
> Hm. Dunno why that should make one sad. I would never use vi or vim (unless I
> had to), but I don't see why I should be sad or bothered if other people find
> it
> useful. One person likes to live in the forest; another prefers the city; a
> third the shore.
>
> Why the need to make Emacs the most popular? It's good to make Emacs better,
> but
> what's the popularity contest about? Perhaps Americans on average listen to
> Britney Spears more than Mozart or Muddy Waters. So what?
>
> On the other hand, info about the relative use of different Emacs versions is
> (mildly) interesting and might be helpful in some ways.
>
Well said Drew. Agree 100%
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), (continued)
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Jonathan Groll, 2008/12/16
- RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Drew Adams, 2008/12/16
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Sean Sieger, 2008/12/18
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), David L, 2008/12/18
- RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Drew Adams, 2008/12/18
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), David L, 2008/12/19
- RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Drew Adams, 2008/12/19
- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Sean Sieger, 2008/12/18
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- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs),
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- Re: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Richard Riley, 2008/12/16
- RE: Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs), Drew Adams, 2008/12/16
- Re: Emacs's popularity, Teemu Likonen, 2008/12/15
- Re: Emacs's popularity, Giorgos Keramidas, 2008/12/15
- RE: is there summary of template systems for emacs?, Drew Adams, 2008/12/15
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- Re: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?), Richard Riley, 2008/12/15