From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D1EC4361B for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417D623BEF for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730549AbgLIQT2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:19:28 -0500 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:29285 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730122AbgLIQT2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:19:28 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from gnash (cpe00fc8d49d843-cm00fc8d49d840.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [173.33.189.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 0B9GIbLo033123 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:18:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) From: "Randall S. Becker" To: "'Junio C Hamano'" , "'Felipe Contreras'" Cc: "'brian m. carlson'" , "'Git'" , "'Jeff King'" , "'Emily Shaffer'" References: <20201209002619.25468-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:18:31 -0500 Message-ID: <01a801d6ce46$f2cad520$d8607f60$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Content-Language: en-ca Thread-Index: AQMa8e/vn8tNvHS03BrW9a/rqTdcswLK6y90AwfBnRcBWCbXHQFrgRpPAtWtGGanC0jrsA== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On December 9, 2020 3:13 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > To: Felipe Contreras > Cc: brian m. carlson ; Git > ; Jeff King ; Emily Shaffer > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration > > Felipe Contreras writes: > > >> *2* In other words, I doubt these graphs are depicting "how widely is > >> an editor used by developers". It is just showing how often it is > >> installed, and I know the primary workstation I use daily has vim and > >> nano installed without me choosing to have them, as opposed to emacs > >> I had to manually install, and I only use vim once every month and > >> nano once every quarter. > > > > Yes, but in Arch Linux at least no editor is installed by default. > > I thought everybody has nano not because it is adequate and usable for > them, but because it comes by default with distros, and distro in turn choose > nano not because it is particularly popular but is small enough not to matter > if left behind unused when the user chooses a real editor. > > But you are essentially usaying that 80% of Arch users install nano by choice. > I find it doubly surprising. I know of perhaps 3 or 4 nano users in the NonStop community. There are probably three orders of magnitude more vi/vim users. vim and vi both come installed on the platform by default. Nano is an add-on that my team builds as a courtesy but there's small interest but it is loyal. Regards, Randall