[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)
Jack Bertram
jack at jbertram.net
Wed Mar 9 13:52:52 UTC 2005
I thought it would be amusing to look through the gllug archive to
determine relative use of vi and emacs. However, a short look at email
headers suggests that it's not very easy to come up with a metric that
means anything - many people don't expose their editors.
I did however run mls over all the messages from 2004, and I attach the
results below for interest's sake:
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Statistics from 1.1.2004 to 31.12.2004
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
***** People who have written most messages:
+----+-----Author-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
| 1 | rich of annexia.org | 408 | 4.78 % |
| 2 | chrisbell of overview.demon.co.uk | 370 | 4.34 % |
| 3 | itsbruce of uklinux.net | 365 | 4.28 % |
| 4 | tet of createservices.com | 364 | 4.27 % |
| 5 | john.hearns of clustervision.com | 322 | 3.77 % |
| 6 | nix of esperi.org.uk | 286 | 3.35 % |
| 7 | bredroll of darkspace.org.uk | 253 | 2.96 % |
| 8 | martin of clues.ltd.uk | 234 | 2.74 % |
| 9 | doug of pigeonhold.com | 205 | 2.40 % |
| 10 | jason of ukpost.com | 174 | 2.04 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
| | other | 5552 | 65.07 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
***** Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author-------------------------------------------+-KBytes-+
| 1 | simon.jakesch of proxima-tech.com | 946.1 |
| 2 | itsbruce of uklinux.net | 571.0 |
| 3 | rich of annexia.org | 430.4 |
| 4 | chrisbell of overview.demon.co.uk | 229.1 |
| 5 | nix of esperi.org.uk | 217.5 |
| 6 | tet of createservices.com | 200.3 |
| 7 | dan of berrange.com | 173.5 |
| 8 | bredroll of darkspace.org.uk | 142.2 |
| 9 | john.hearns of clustervision.com | 139.0 |
| 10 | doug of pigeonhold.com | 133.8 |
+----+------------------------------------------------------+--------+
***** Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author--------------------------------------------+-bytes-+
| 1 | simon.jakesch of proxima-tech.com | 31250 |
| 2 | Niko.Nordlund of storaenso.com | 6236 |
| 3 | ben of smtnet.co.uk | 6029 |
| 4 | CNeedham of Ashdown-IT.co.uk | 5651 |
| 5 | jameseggleston of hotmail.com | 5587 |
| 6 | pdr of pdr.cx | 5468 |
| 7 | agk of ukuug.org | 5438 |
| 8 | andy.mccall of aqualona.com | 5276 |
| 9 | agk of oxlug.org | 4671 |
| 10 | Charles.H of sdccom.co.uk | 4310 |
+----+-------------------------------------------------------+-------+
***** Table showing the most successful subjects:
+----+----Subject-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
| 1 | [Gllug] Recommended distro | 74 | 0.87 % |
| 2 | [Gllug] ADSL modem -- WTF? | 63 | 0.74 % |
| 3 | [Gllug] [OT]Reforming wayward web designers | 62 | 0.73 % |
| 4 | [Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LV | 59 | 0.69 % |
| 5 | [Gllug] ``Confidential`` .sigs | 55 | 0.64 % |
| 6 | TMDA Re: [Gllug] New worm doing the rounds? | 48 | 0.56 % |
| 7 | [Gllug] Undelete...? | 47 | 0.55 % |
| 8 | [Gllug] natwest fantasticness | 47 | 0.55 % |
| 9 | [Gllug] Odeon website | 47 | 0.55 % |
| 10 | [Gllug] Rejecting mail at backup MX | 45 | 0.53 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
| | other | 7986 | 93.59 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
***** Most used email clients:
+----+----Mailer------------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
| 1 | Mutt | 2248 | 26.34 % |
| 2 | (unknown) | 1342 | 15.73 % |
| 3 | KMail | 680 | 7.97 % |
| 4 | Mozilla/5.x | 621 | 7.28 % |
| 5 | ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.53] | 370 | 4.34 % |
| 6 | Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 | 290 | 3.40 % |
| 7 | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Secu | 254 | 2.98 % |
| 8 | Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) | 244 | 2.86 % |
| 9 | Sylpheed version 0.9.x | 212 | 2.48 % |
| 10 | Internet Mail Service 5.x | 189 | 2.21 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
| | other | 2083 | 24.41 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
***** Table of maximal quoting:
+----+-----Author------------------------------------------+-Percent-+
| 1 | n.mitchell of blikeybox.co.uk | 82.53 % |
| 2 | harkness of redhat.com | 76.68 % |
| 3 | bradut of bradut.com | 75.18 % |
| 4 | caparo of gogointernet.co.uk | 74.49 % |
| 5 | k0210244 of kingston.ac.uk | 74.03 % |
| 6 | brad of holidays-4u.co.uk | 72.71 % |
| 7 | wibbleworld of wibbleworld.demon.co.uk | 70.64 % |
| 8 | james.gllug of dsl.pipex.com | 69.28 % |
| 9 | whaity of isalazybastard.com | 68.50 % |
| 10 | gary_pownall of hotmail.com | 68.43 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+
| | average | 26.69 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+
***** Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:
100% -----------------------#------------------------- - 800
90% -----------------------#-#---#------------------- msgs
80% ---------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#---------------
70% ---------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-------------
60% ---------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-------------
50% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-------------
40% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#---#-------
30% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
20% -#---------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
10% -#-#-------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
hour 0 5 11 17 23
***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:
100% -------------#------------------------------------------------- - 403
90% -------------#-------------------#----------------------------- msgs
80% -------------#---#-----------#---#-----#-----------------------
70% ---#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#-------#-#-#-#-#---#-#---------------------
60% -#-#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-----#---
50% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-----#---
40% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#---
30% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#---
20% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
10% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
day 1 6 12 18 24 31
!!!!! Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.
***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:
100% -----#----------------------- - 1591
90% -#---#---#------------------- msgs
80% -#---#---#---#---#-----------
70% -#---#---#---#---#-----------
60% -#---#---#---#---#-----------
50% -#---#---#---#---#-----------
40% -#---#---#---#---#-------#---
30% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#---
20% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#---
10% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#---
* * * * * * *
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
!!!!! Warning: 27 message(s) not counted.
***** Maximal quoting:
Author : mirojrsc of yahoo.co.uk
Subject : [Gllug] Re: Gllug Digest, Vol 8, Issue 43
Date : Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:36:30 +0000 (GMT)
Quote ratio: 97.79% / 15682 bytes
***** Longest message:
Author : simon.jakesch of proxima-tech.com
Subject : [Gllug] XFree86 shuts down after startup
Date : Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:45:18 -0400
Size : 956375 bytes
***** Most successful subject:
Subject : [Gllug] Recommended distro
No. of msgs: 74
Total size : 100407 bytes
***** Final summary:
Total number of messages: 8533
Total number of different authors: 397
Total number of different subjects: 1649
Total size of messages (w/o headers): 10682710 bytes
Average size of a message: 1251 bytes
***** Generated by MailListStat v1.3, (C) 2001-2003 <marki (at) nexin.sk>
***** See http://freshmeat.net/projects/mls for details...
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