On December 9, 2020 3:13 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Git > <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>; Emily Shaffer > <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration > > 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 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
