Re: [vile] mini-buffer question

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:16:50 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "j. van den hoff" <address@hidden>
> | To: "Vile List" <address@hidden>, "Paul Fox" <address@hidden>
> | Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 5:50:20 AM
> | Subject: Re: [vile] mini-buffer question
> | 
> | On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:11:07 +0100, Paul Fox
> | <address@hidden>
> | wrote:
> | 
> | > wayne wrote:
> | >  > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:56:44PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> | >  > > I would certainly prefer having to hit ^V prior to inserting
> | > "special"
> | >  > > characters, but I'm the only one who uses vile. Not only is
> | >  > > that the
> | >  > > traditional vi behavior but most shells default to that as
> | >  > > well. Of
> | >  > > course it can be worked around but in my old age my muscle
> | >  > > memory
> | > takes
> | >  > > precedence over my mental memory :)
> | >  >
> | >  > HA HA that should have read "not the only one who uses vile".
> | >  > That one
> | >  > gave me a laugh.
> | >
> | > my thought was, "well, i think there are at least 3 of us..."  :-)
> | 
> | still a too pessimistic assessment ;-)
> | 
> | joerg
> 
> I have an impression that actual users are a lot more than those on the
> mailing list - perhaps several hundred to low thousands worldwide.
> That's not really a large number, but it's not negligible.
> 

Do you have any statistics for the number of Windows downloads?
How about source?

I always install WinVile when I'm forced to use Windows.  And
I always install at least xvile under FreeBSD.  Unfortunately,
since I gave up maintaining the vile/xvile ports it's no longer
possible to have both installed at the same time :(

Of course, now adays many FreeBSD users install using pkg(7),
so you wouldn't have any statistics for that.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn