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Re: emacs-w3m question


From: Giorgos Keramidas
Subject: Re: emacs-w3m question
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:50:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix)

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:22:33 -0800 (PST), Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Nov 6, 10:12 am, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:31:02 -0800 (PST), Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> in the past year, i changed my newsgroup behavior so that i actually
>>> try to reply to every message, then i came to realize thru
>>> individualistic discussions, that they never used Windows, never used
>>> Mac, which together are some 96% of world's computers emacs runs on,
>>> but they insist that emacs UI should be this or that.
>>
>> 96% of statistics are made up.
>
> by ur mom?

I guess she has her own share of false statistics, like me, you and
everyone else :)

>> I don't think Emacs has so _many_ Windows users.
>
> How many?

It wasn't me who hinted at a 96% percentage of the world's computers, so
asking _me_ to provide the number is a bit unrealistic.

>> I know that a lot of people who use Emacs in other platforms like the
>> Windows ports of Emacs too, but I highly doubt *all* the Windows
>> users know about Emacs :)
>
> on the whole, do u have a point?

Yes.  Please don't use made up numbers to insult the people who designed
the UI of Emacs.  Some of them have used Windows too.  For a long time.
Long enough to get down and actually *port* Emacs on the platform.



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