Re: Gathering data on user preferences

[Howard Melman]

> On Sep 7, 2021, at 2:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:25:29 -0400
>> 
>> I proposed this almost exactly a year ago...
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00451.html
>> I got no responses.
>> 
>> I still think it's a good idea and I hope people respond to you.
> 
> If by "respond" you mean you expect someone to write such a command
> and submit it to Emacs, then the chances of that seem to be low, given
> the time that passed with no one volunteering.
> 
> How about if you do this job yourself?
> 
> (We will still need to ask people to use this command and hope they
> will be willing to tell us about their habits through this mechanism.
> Personally, I'm not sure this will work, given how people feel about
> telemetry features.  But it won't hurt us to try.)

By "respond" I meant no one sent an email in support of or opposed to the idea.

Howard