Why isn't emacs installed by default
Doncho N. Gunchev
gunchev at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 18:58:39 UTC 2007
On Monday 2007-06-04 19:34:28 Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 6/4/07, Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Really? What are your numbers and how did you come to them? Because
> > every linux user I know uses *emacs or vi* except for one that uses
> > nedit.
>
>
> Rather than fall into the pointless trap of "everyone I personally
> know' uses application foo" .... here are some suggestive numbers from
> mugshot.
>
> Mugshot does include Emacs in its application stats as a text editor.
> Searching for 'text editor' in mugshot's application db and you get
> this:
> gedit sits at #6 with 1,863 mugshot users
> emacs sits at #21 with 482
> vim sits at #30 with 327
> kate sits at #70 with 80
> inkscape sits at #40 with 191
>
> and for comparison the leading IDE is eclipse is #25 with 439
> and open office writer sits at #15 with 1,023
>
> -jef"I use emacs, but I do not want to see it in the default install"spaleta
>
linuxquestions.org - Text Editor of the Year (2006)
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=514955
vi/vim 639 38.42%
Kate 277 16.66%
gedit 190 11.43%
nano 160 9.62%
KWrite 124 7.46%
emacs/xemacs 114 6.86%
Midnight Commander Editor
mcedit 43 2.59%
pico 31 1.86%
Nedit 23 1.38%
jEdit 24 1.44%
Scite 21 1.26%
joe 17 1.02%
"Voters: 1663" - too less to draw a conclusion, but still something :-(
I use mcedit, kate and can survive on vi only, but don't ask for mc in
the default install.
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