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market share seems like a wrong term for a product that doesnt seem to give an f about it. nor does it seem to care about some mean reversing ui. what it does seem to care about is the users that keep using and loving it ;)


>product that doesnt seem to give an f about it.

They should care about it. Losing market share means people are finding more value in other editors. Do the developers not want Emacs to give the most value as possible to users?


I disagree that Emacs losing market share necessarily means that people find more value in various editors. While that could be the cause, there are various other possibilities: more people are being mandated the use of various of those editors, those editors may have better marketing, the systems people are using may come standard with editors that are "good enough",...


> Losing market share means people are finding more value in other editors.

some people just dont get it. emacs is not an editor :)


> Do the developers not want Emacs to give the most value as possible to users?

They clearly do not.




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