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From: Richard Smith <null@void.com>
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Subject: Re: 10, 15 yrs ago this newsgroup was *much* larger.  What happened?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:13:11 +0100
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> Subject line says it all.  Has emacs usage gone down?
> ...

Maybe emacs is a big centre-of-gravity, but creates no noise?
Vast numbers of folk doing a lot of stuff, all contentedly getting on?
That emacs has been stable over decades and looks to stay that way
says it all?

I quietly spend most of my time on the computer in emacs, doing what I
do.

I am predominantly a scientist, metallurgist, welder and welding
engineer.

I used to bring in a cd with a dos-emacs on it, pass it to "IT" who
would scan it and declare they were fine with it, and I'd run that
emacs on my work computer.  Managing huge amounts of information, use
the "abbrevs" to rapidly write big reports with all acronyms expanded
as were abbrevs for big abstruse technical names and terms, etc.
I'd text copy documents which came in as MSWord, do big amounts of
scientific/technical information, then format it back in MSWord when
content was all there.
Separate the information and its presentation...  The typesetting
(eg. "LaTeX" philosophy).  I'd "swing around" significant tasks knowing where
I was going with it, where others were driven insane trying to do it.

So yes, much work done quietly?