Why Emacs Will Outlast Text Editor Trends

Why Emacs Will Outlast Text Editor Trends

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Introduction and conclusion

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Introduction and conclusion

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Why Emacs Will Outlast Text Editor Trends

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  1. 1 Introduction and conclusion
  2. 2 Who am I?
  3. 3 Is Emacs unpopular?
  4. 4 What does popularity really mean?
  5. 5 How do we measure popularity?
  6. 6 Google Trends
  7. 7 Stack Overflow Survey
  8. 8 Community Activity
  9. 9 How do editors lose popularity?
  10. 10 A new editor with better features appears
  11. 11 Lack of sufficient maintenance
  12. 12 The "fashion" moves on
  13. 13 What happens when an editor loses popularity?
  14. 14 How will Emacs survive *despite* popularity?
  15. 15 Emacs is more deeply hackable than almost all other editors
  16. 16 Emacs has a strong community of highly skilled package authors
  17. 17 Emacs has a very strong user community
  18. 18 The Emacs maintainers and contributors care about the users
  19. 19 Isn't all this supposed to come when an editor is popular?
  20. 20 When someone talks about popularity...

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