From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giacomo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: 2 May 2007 09:22:49 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1178122969.311877.43260@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178142460 3466 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 21:47:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 23:47:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjMfh-0003V7-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 23:47:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjMm8-0002tw-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 17:54:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.21.209.174 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1178122970 15912 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2007 16:22:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 16:22:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070323 Epiphany/2.18 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.21.209.174; posting-account=BGqHSQ0AAABAOFKtzsHj3sSo8oWmlb_V Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147915 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:51:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43538 Archived-At: On Apr 24, 7:07 am, 30ish emacs user wrote: > I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are > you? I'm 32. > I'm 21, Emacs user since yesterday :-). > I suppose most of the youngest generation were exposed to some kind of > graphical editor like Visual Studio or Eclipse and they find Emacs > alien (those who don't understand...) after using the former. > I tried _everything_ before Emacs, on junior high I played with Visual Basic, on the first two years in high school I switched first to Visual Studio, later on Delphi and C++ Builder. On the third year in high school I discovered Linux and dropped all of the Windows stuff and started to write code on simple editors like Gedit, Kate, ecc... At the end of high school and on the university I looked for some better environment and tried VIM, KDevelop, Anjuta, Netbeans and Eclipse. I always found something that really bored me. Now I just dropped Eclipse and started using Emacs: it looks good, still I miss some features like "intellisense" and I need to configure some things like session restoring.