On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Tony Baldwin <tonybald...@gmx.com> wrote: > MY first thought was," > Emacs?! People still use the crusty old thing? > Perhaps he consider dumping that monstrosity and joining the rest of us in > the 21st Century, and upgrade to a modern OS with a proper editor, such as > Debian 8/Jessie with Vim!" >
Yes. People use Emacs. There is no one solution that fits all. You can check this for yourself by reading the statistics from popcon[1] or by % apt-cache search --names-only "^vim$" | grep -v "vim-" | popsort.py 1210 vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor % apt-cache search --names-only "^emacs$" | popsort.py 3216 emacs - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) which shows that both editors are equally popular but vim a bit more (rank of 1210 vs 3216). Appendix: [1] - http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst [2] - popsort.py is a python script I wrote to get the popularity rank. It can be downloaded from https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob/master/bin/popsort.py . thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
