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>From ihnss!warren@Berkeley Sat Dec 19 13:05:37 1981
Since I am never really sure whether or not random mail into the
arpanet will work from here, I thought I would publish this in
editor-people for all of you who have asked me about my unix emacs.

Yes I have a unix emacs that will run on a shared I&D space pdp-11
without too much hassle.
Unfortunately, Bell Labs has not, and probably will not release it
to the outside world.  My effort was not part of the "official" unix
product, and thus is not likely to be included that way, and the
only other way to get software released is to have it officially
declared worthless, which seems equally unlikely.  There are a lot
of copies that have escaped, but unfortunately, if I want to keep my
job I can't really have anything to do with them.

Sorry about this, If it were my choice, anyone could have it.

	Warren Montgomery
	ihnss!warren
	IH x2494



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Postmark: <Shasta:SYS@Sail@18Dec81 17:48:09>
Mail-from: ARPANET site UCB-C70 rcvd at 18-Dec-81 1742-PST
Date: 18 Dec 1981 17:17:02-PST
From: ihnss!warren at Berkeley@Shasta at Sumex-Aim
To: ucbvax!editor-people@Berkeley
Subject: unix emacs statistics.

My previous conclusion was based on a record of all of the
characters to pass through the interpreter of my emacs for a user
community of about 50 users in 2-3 months.  Breifly, they broke down
as.

Insertion:  52%
Control-char commands: 27%
Prefixes (^X,^[,^U): 9%
Meta commands: 6%
Control-X commands: 6%
(Note that sometimes meta commands get invoked without the prefix).

^F^B^N and ^P were 10-20 times more frequent than M-a,M-b,M-f, etc.

Of the commands, I could categorize them as:

Cursor movement: 20%
Prefix:	18%
Macro Programming (Control Structures, etc.): 15%
Deletion: 12%
Filess and Buffers: 4%
Argument Specification: 3%
Searching: 2%
Others:	20%

I have no idea how specific this is to my particular installation,
but most of those users were naive users who learned emacs as their
first screen editor (or first editor period!).

	Warren Montgomery
	ihnss!warren
	IH x2494