Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Stefan Kangas]

Ahmed Khanzada <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. Terminal-based Vim is not like a modern application, yet is more
> popular than Emacs.

How do you know that Vim is more popular than Emacs?

> 3. If Emacs was to become a "modern" app tomorrow, an editor extended
> in Lisp still only has appeal for a minority of programmers

I think features matters more than extension language to most users.
For example, the popularity of Vim is unlikely to be based on the
appeal of an editor extended in Vimscript.

> 4. Most of the push for a "modern look" comes from the desire for Emacs
> to play more nicely with proprietary platforms.

Why do you believe that to be the case?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas