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And then some. I can't immediately find the survey that struck me, but here's a Quora answer [1] that cites O'Reilley selling twice as many Vim books than Emac

And then some. I can't immediately find the survey that struck me, but here's a Quora answer [1] that cites O'Reilley selling twice as many Vim books than Emacs, the Debian PopCon results [2] that are rather striking (but Debian PopCon has quite the preselection bias, and the data may not cover all sub-packages properly), and Ubuntu's results [3] are a bit harder to parse but also striking, with vim-common at 2714181 / 25488 installs / "votes" (regular uses), vs emacsen-common (the highest-placed "emacs" package) at 330647 / 1669. [1] http://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-Emacs-or-Vim-users http://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-Emacs-or-Vim-users [2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim%2C+emacs&show_vote=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&from_date=2010-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=vim%2C+emacs... [3] http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst

bandrami 12y ago
Well, I'm an emacs guy, and I've bought a vi book (O'Reilley's in fact) and not an emacs book, because I needed a book to figure out how to use vi and I didn't with emacs. Just throwing that out there.
- RBerenguel 12y ago
  Same here. I got Practical Vim and then moved to emacs+evil because I liked some of the vim concepts but wasn't willing to trade the usefulness of emacs. Never bought an emacs book either, after all "emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." C-h (+ k or m) is probably one of the first key chords you are to learn when starting emacs, from there everything is downhill.
Grue3 12y ago
[3] is misleading as vim is preinstalled on Ubuntu while emacs isn't.
- AceJohnny2 12y ago
  Not entirely misleading, see the "votes" stat which reflects uses. People use what's available, having Vim preinstalled is a powerful headstart.

bandrami 12y ago

Well, I'm an emacs guy, and I've bought a vi book (O'Reilley's in fact) and not an emacs book, because I needed a book to figure out how to use vi and I didn't with emacs. Just throwing that out there.

RBerenguel 12y ago
Same here. I got Practical Vim and then moved to emacs+evil because I liked some of the vim concepts but wasn't willing to trade the usefulness of emacs. Never bought an emacs book either, after all "emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor." C-h (+ k or m) is probably one of the first key chords you are to learn when starting emacs, from there everything is downhill.

Grue3 12y ago

[3] is misleading as vim is preinstalled on Ubuntu while emacs isn't.

AceJohnny2 12y ago
Not entirely misleading, see the "votes" stat which reflects uses. People use what's available, having Vim preinstalled is a powerful headstart.