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Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY RESULTS
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY RESULTS |
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Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:42:08 +0000 |
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[Followup-To: set to gnu.emacs.help once again]
In gnu.emacs.help Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> To help direct the development of CC Mode, it would be useful to find
> out how people use the auto-newline "minor mode" facility. If you
> could spare a little time, would you answer these questions, please:
A big thank you to all who responded, including another 7 who answered me
by email.
OK: Here are the results (Sometimes with a little necessary
interpretation), with my comments.
> o Do you program with auto-newline switched on (e.g. do you get NLs
> inserted automatically after typing a `;' or `{')?
Yes: 13
No: 6
Wow! Lots of people use auto-newline. Like some respondents, I can't
stand it. It shows that we need it, and it needs to be optional.
> o Did you configure this auto-newline setting yourself, and if not, are
> you happy with it?
Yes: 11
No: 4 No/Yes: 3
No/No: 0
Dumb double question there. Sorry.
> o Are you aware of the key binding C-c C-a to toggle this mode on and
> off?
Yes: 6
No: 13
I counted someone who said "No, but I use the menu item" as a yes.
> o How often do you use C-c C-a (or even C-c C-t) to toggle auto-newline
> mode?
Frequently:
Seldomly: 4
Never: 14
Not a popular toggle. It would seem that most people either definitely
want auto-newline or definitely don't want it. Very few seem to want to
toggle it whilst editing; maybe because most people don't know it
exists.
> o In which language(s) (C, C++, ....) do you program in (X)Emacs?
C: 14
C++: 14
Objective-C: 2
Java: 7
Pike: 0
IDL: 1
AWK: 0
Most (but not all) C hackers are also C++ hackers. It's good to see that
Objective-C and IDL Modes are actually used. But where are the Pikers and
Awkers? (We know that there's _at least_ one of each ;-).
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, (continued)
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Eric Eide, 2005/04/10
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Vedat Hallac, 2005/04/10
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Klaus Zeitler, 2005/04/11
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, James, 2005/04/11
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Robert Marshall, 2005/04/11
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Jochen Küpper, 2005/04/11
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY, Greg Rowe, 2005/04/12
- Re: Emacs CC Mode's auto-newline facility: INFORMAL SURVEY RESULTS,
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