Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Robert Thorpe]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Jean Louis wrote:
>
>> I do not consider that survey authentic. But let us say it
>> is. In my opinion that 30% from the survey is much greater
>> number in reality. If we assume that 30% would apply also to
>> those who reported Emacs installations in Debian GNU/Linux
>> than there is at least 4800 users among those 16000 who
>> reported using Emacs in that OS.
>
> Is this another survey I didn't hear about?
>
> Please always provide reference(s) when you make claims that
> involve data.

I don't know where Jean Louis got his info from.  I assume the Debian
survey is the "popcon" one.  You can find the results for Emacs here:

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=emacs

The Emacs usage survey mentioned was shared on Emacs-Devel but not here.
I don't know why.  It was shared in some other places too.  I get the
impression it was by someone very modern who isn't into things like
email lists.

I don't know if it's millions, but lots of people use Emacs.  As you can
see, the Debian survey shows about 14000.  Also, there are 49000
subscribers to Emacs Reddit.  I suspect not every Emacs user is on
Reddit, so the number is probably higher than 49000.

BR,
Robert Thorpe