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What stood out to me is that 71% of the respondents disabled tool-bar, 62% disabled menu-bar, 55% disabled splash screen, and 53% disabled the scroll-bar. This

by susam 6y ago

What stood out to me is that 71% of the respondents disabled tool-bar, 62% disabled menu-bar, 55% disabled splash screen, and 53% disabled the scroll-bar. This shows that the default user interface is perhaps better suited to the novice, not to an experienced user. Shameless plug: I recently wrote a ~/.emacs guide to help beginners to Common Lisp set up Emacs in a DIY fashion rather than just installing the often recommended Portacle: https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl . Indeed the first few things this guide indulges in is to set up the user interface as follows before getting into setting up the environment for Common Lisp: ;; Customize user interface. (menu-bar-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode -1) (scroll-bar-mode -1) (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (load-theme 'wombat)

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I also wanted to know which themes are popular, so I took the cleaned up CSV from this post and picked the top 30 themes from it with a script. Here are the results: 1. 1034 (14%) default 2. 354 ( 5%) my own 3. 338 ( 5%) doom-one 4. 318 ( 4%) zenburn 5. 208 ( 3%) solarized 6. 202 ( 3%) solarized-dark 7. 194 ( 3%) dracula 8. 181 ( 2%) don't know 9. 163 ( 2%) gruvbox 10. 162 ( 2%) spacemacs 11. 158 ( 2%) spacemacs-dark 12. 153 ( 2%) modus-operandi 13. 120 ( 2%) solarized-light 14. 118 ( 2%) modus-vivendi 15. 117 ( 2%) monokai 16. 116 ( 2%) leuven 17. 111 ( 2%) tango-dark 18. 102 ( 1%) wombat 19. 88 ( 1%) nord 20. 77 ( 1%) doom-theme 21. 67 ( 1%) modus 22. 63 ( 1%) doom-nord 23. 54 ( 1%) spacemacs-light 24. 52 ( 1%) doom-dracula 25. 49 ( 1%) misterioso 26. 45 ( 1%) doom-one-light 27. 44 ( 1%) deeper-blue 28. 41 ( 1%) material 29. 41 ( 1%) doom-gruvbox 30. 40 ( 1%) wheatgrass The column values from left to right are rank, number of votes, votes as percentage of total responses, theme name. The answers in the CSV are in unstructured format and I have not normalized the data a lot to arrive at the list above, so there is some inaccuracy in the results above but despite the inaccuracy it gives a pretty good idea of the relative popularity of themes.

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I also wanted to know which themes are popular, so I took the cleaned up CSV from this post and picked the top 30 themes from it with a script. Here are the results: 1. 1034 (14%) default 2. 354 ( 5%) my own 3. 338 ( 5%) doom-one 4. 318 ( 4%) zenburn 5. 208 ( 3%) solarized 6. 202 ( 3%) solarized-dark 7. 194 ( 3%) dracula 8. 181 ( 2%) don't know 9. 163 ( 2%) gruvbox 10. 162 ( 2%) spacemacs 11. 158 ( 2%) spacemacs-dark 12. 153 ( 2%) modus-operandi 13. 120 ( 2%) solarized-light 14. 118 ( 2%) modus-vivendi 15. 117 ( 2%) monokai 16. 116 ( 2%) leuven 17. 111 ( 2%) tango-dark 18. 102 ( 1%) wombat 19. 88 ( 1%) nord 20. 77 ( 1%) doom-theme 21. 67 ( 1%) modus 22. 63 ( 1%) doom-nord 23. 54 ( 1%) spacemacs-light 24. 52 ( 1%) doom-dracula 25. 49 ( 1%) misterioso 26. 45 ( 1%) doom-one-light 27. 44 ( 1%) deeper-blue 28. 41 ( 1%) material 29. 41 ( 1%) doom-gruvbox 30. 40 ( 1%) wheatgrass The column values from left to right are rank, number of votes, votes as percentage of total responses, theme name. The answers in the CSV are in unstructured format and I have not normalized the data a lot to arrive at the list above, so there is some inaccuracy in the results above but despite the inaccuracy it gives a pretty good idea of the relative popularity of themes.