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Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?
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Joel J. Adamson |
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Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users? |
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Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:34:28 -0400 |
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Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently received an e-mail from a friend (no matter what was the
> discussion about) saying that he wanted his views to reach a lot of
> users, not only the "niche" of Emacs users.
My story: I'm one of two people that I know use Emacs, the other one
uses XEmacs. I don't know many Unix users other than myself, however
the one really devoted one uses vi; he's been using Unix almost
exclusively since middle school (he and I are the same age, so around
1993). Since he's a mathematician, uses LaTeX, and programs in CAML,
I entirely expected him to use Emacs, but I was wrong.
My favorite "Linux encounter" was at a holiday party I met a sysadmin
from MIT; first he gasped when I said that I love Slackware, then we
started talking about email clients and I said that use Emacs to read
my mail. His reaction: "Oh, you're one of those." He used vi vi vi.
This poll from last year shows vi by a large margin; Emacs is actually
third behind
Kate.
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2006-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-76/text-editor-of-the-year-514955/>
Of course, I must add that I'm always surprised by how much software
caters to Emacs; I had only thought about using Emacs when I saw on
the R FAQ "Should I run R in Emacs?" I thought "You can do that? I
should give Emacs another look..." I'm currently designing some
software to interact through Emacs. I love it and I think a lot of
other people would if they knew about it.
Joel
http://trashbird1240.blogspot.com
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- Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?, (continued)
Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/19
Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?, roodwriter, 2007/10/18
Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?, Bastien, 2007/10/19
Re: How big is the "niche" of Emacs users?,
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