>> I bet it's significantly less popular than, say, golded + msged + >> hotdoged together. SH> But three message editors is a very small drop in a very large SH> bucket.
However, these three message editors cover over a half of the whole Fidonet.
SH> Your original post said nothing about popularity.
It said something about common practice.
SH> Baked, DCTEdit, EXyEdit, FSEdit, GEdit, IceEdit, OM, PEdit, QuickEd, SH> QuikEdit, SabreEDIT, SHEDIT, SyncEdit, TurboEDIT, TIDE, ExtraEdit, SH> YEDIT, ZAFFER, SETEDIT... and those are just the ones in the BBS SH> Archives.
Yes - they are in archives. Compare that to actively developed golded (with recent release at 2016-02-01 and over 2000 users), msged (which is about to become first message editor running in a terminal with native support for Unicode) or hotdoged (de facto standard for mobile points on Android devices).
SH> Most message editors are BBS software and most of them do not do SH> quoting like that. The most popular in various regions is a SH> completely different discussion. >> How many thousands of people do use it? SH> Synchronet doesn't do data collection, and most Synchronet boards SH> aren't connected to FidoNet.
So they are out-of scope here.
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