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Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?


From: Rustom Mody
Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:25:30 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:57:48 AM UTC+5:30, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Emanuel Berg [2013-10-09 21:41:45 +02:00] wrote:
> 
> 
> > Evans Winner writes:
> >> Is it [Emacs] less popular than vi? That's hard to believe.
> >
> > Yeah, I don't believe that either.
> 
> 
> That's hard to measure. One way for estimating popularity is Debian's
> automatic popularity contest.
>  
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=emacsen-common%2Cvim-common&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

Thanks for that picture.
It confirms my personal hunchy feel that 20 years ago emacs-vi were kind of 
neck to neck; whereas today emacs is increasingly in the category: "Whazzat??" 
for young programmers.


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