Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs

[paul r]

2008/3/26, Mike Mattie <address@hidden>:
> Here are some basic questions I thought of to give some context.
>  It's hard to ask directly for the information you want without loading the 
> questions, so I fell
>  back on some basic background information as a starting place.

I think it is a good start. I can't wait to see what the shape of
distribution of age is.

>
>  What was the motive or appeal that sustained your climb of the Emacs 
> learning curve ?
>
>  What quality keeps Emacs indispensable ?
>
>  Years of Emacs Experience ?
>
>  Programming Experience: 0-9
>
>  Primary applications, or what do you use Emacs for pre-dominantly ? apps,web 
> dev, books ?
>
>  Native language ?
>
>  Age ?
>
>  use of mouse ? 0-4
>
>  Most useful Modes ?
>
>  Least useful Modes ?
>
>  Size of .emacs ?
>
>  How do you go about learning a new Emacs feature you need ?
>
>  subscribed to emacs-devel y/n
>
>  subscribed to help-gnu-emacs y/n
>
>  systems you use Emacs on ? (autoconf triplets)
>
>  Emacs version ?
>
>  External Elisp packages used: (significant to daily workflow at least)
>
>  Most difficult command to learn ?
>
>  Easiest command to learn ?
>
>  command with best DWIM ?
>
>  command with worst DWIM ?
>
>  Use marks for ? (what is a mark should be a valid answer)
>
>  favorite movie/book ? (throw at least one fun question in just so people 
> don't get bored filling out a survey.
>  Could do the "top 5" for the fun question).
>