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Re: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Dec 9, 2020, 08:13 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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>> *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.

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