On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:13 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> 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 double checked. The installation instructions [1] do tell you to pick an editor, and they don't suggest any. I am half-surprised. The StackOverflow question "How do I exit the Vim editor?" has 2.2 million views [2], there's countless memes about that ordeal [3], and the SO team even found it wise to write a blog post about it [4]. I don't know how to exit emacs (Ctrl-X Ctrl-e?), and I suspect many emacs users don't know how to exit vim. Nano doesn't have this problem. Which means for somebody entering the world of Linux, that's a plus. Cheers. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Install_essential_packages [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-the-vim-editor [3] https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/993821761648103425 [4] https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/ -- Felipe Contreras
