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Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate)
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Rüdiger Sonderfeld |
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Re: Frequently Enabled Packages - Emacs-24.4 survey (Please participate) |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:19:20 +0100 |
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On Sunday 08 December 2013 14:56:55 Michael Albinus wrote:
> Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:
> > Exercise judgement in interpreting the results.
> >
> > | Packages/Modes | Upvote / User count | % |
> > |
> > |---------------------------+---------------------+----|
> > |
> > | tramp | 11 | 12 |
>
> Tramp is part of the Emacs distribution, and it is enabled by
> `file-name-handler-alist'. Does this figure mean, 11 users are not aware
> of? Or does this mean, just 11 of 89 users wish to see Tramp?
The problem is that everybody started to mark and add features at different
points. I wouldn't really worry whether this represents actual usage for a
default enabled feature. I didn't increase tramp (I think) and it probably
wasn't even on the list when I voted. But I'm a regular tramp user.
The format of the survey is not really optimal. I guess a better way would
have been to use a piece of elisp to collect the data. Similar to what the
org-mode folks did in their survey. But anyway the survey is probably good
enough to consider the first 5 to 10 data points. Which is probably all that
matters for the actual question at hand.
I'd say the survey suggests that `column-number-mode' and `show-paren-mode'
(maybe `recentf-mode') should be enabled as default. `ido-mode' is popular
but changes the behaviour to drastically to be a default imo.
Regards,
Rüdiger