Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs

[paul r]

2008/3/25, Mike Mattie <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
>  With the recent discussion on how people use Emacs I have been pondering how 
> to acquire use data that would illuminate
>  the discussion with fact.
>
>  Emacs has a nifty facility for recording the input events: these keystroke 
> dumps, if suitably scrubbed of personal
>  data, and keyed to an anonymous ID could be used to populate a database that 
> could be mined for the kind of information
>  needed in the discussions on user interface design.
>
>  WDOT ?


How about making a simple web page, with 3 fields :
 1) How many years have you been using emacs
 2) Paste your .emacs here
 3) Write here any suggestion about default settings

It would be easy to see what people activate in their .emacs, and in
which proportion.
A email confirmation mechanism would be welcome to prevent people from
being tempted to send 1000 differents automatically generated .emacs
with evertime (transient-mark-mode 1) in them :)