Okay. I admit to being surprised by this. Despite being a Sublime user myself I had expected vi[m]/emacs to handily beat all other options.
(Also don't forget it's coffee time in Europe)
Logically, you'd be right that it wouldn't make much sense. However geographical trends like that do happen. eg SLES tends to have more traction in Europe than in the US (where RHEL is king of the enterprise space). Opera is more widely used in Europe and some eastern blocks than it is in the States. Apple hardware has a lower foothold in Europe than in America. And so on.
Often it's just a case that people will use what they see their peers use rather than what they're told they should use by the internet.
I can't help you there as I wasn't the one that made that comment.
> If you ask me I'd expect SV to have higher vim/emacs penetration since it's been tech central since before the invention of the terminal.
You could make similar arguments against SV: vim was written by a European (Bram Moolenaar) and GNU emacs was widely popularised by a European OS (Linux). Sadly local statistical trends are rarely that simple to explain (and if we're honest, the results of these polls are anything but trustworthy to begin with)
But you're totally derailing my thread as that is the entire point of my comment. The OP presented it like some sort of foregone conclusion that SV would obviously skew to Sublime. Why!? I am not trying to make a claim that A) geographical variances don't exist or B) SV over-represents vim / emacs (that was merely a wild guess, not meant to state a position, just meant to demonstrate that intuitively the OP's argument makes no sense).
I hope that's clear now.
And accusing me of "totally derailing [your] thread" when it's neither your thread and nor am I going off topic, is rather childish. I appreciate you wanted pyre to expand on his comments, but let's not descend into hair-pulling just because someone else happens to side with a comment that you presumably misinterpreted (and I'm making that presumption because you latter agreed with his comment when I reworded it).