[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

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