On 9/21/24 02:37, Tony Goodhew wrote:
I'm on vacation near Shell Knob in Missouri and I'm trying to catch up with this. mammoth thread...
Dave,
I feel the need to come clean with everyone that I was the PM who killed EMACS emulation in Visual Studio back in the early 2010s.
In my defense, that usage data showed almost zero people used it and the maintenance cost exceeded that.
To all the EMACS adherents out there I apologize,
No impact here; I'd not touch Visual anything with a ten-foot pole. I run *emacs*.
Near-zero usage for such an emulation is not surprising at all. People who want an emacs emulation probably want it because they've run emacs in the past, and such people are probably still running emacs.
Further, most Windows people I've met tend not to dig around and explore things, they just do what they're told. If you guys didn't tell them "hey, try emacs mode!" they probably didn't.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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Dave McGuire