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h : help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 22 June 2012 • 7:17PM -0400

Re: Emacs users a dying breed?
by Jeremiah Dodds

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Tom <adatgyujto@gmai...> writes:

> Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> I think it's more like "attracting more users is less of a priority than
>> appealing to what others are used to", there's plenty of improvement and
>> development of Emacs going on.
>>
>
> Yes, but if we take Google Trends as an indicator interest in Emacs
> is decreasing:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends/?q=emacs
>
> Shouldn't it be a concern? Shouldn't those kinds of improvements
> be given more priority which can increase the interest in Emacs?

No, why should Emacs and users and developers of Emacs be concerned with
increasing the interest in Emacs? It's already a name that practically
everyone who writes software has heard of, and the type of people that
like it stick with it.



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