From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sixdegreepub@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: 3 May 2007 22:54:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1178258085.859424.131690@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 1178296521 4300 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 16:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:35:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 18:35:20 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 1Hk0kY-000806-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk0rC-0002MU-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 12:42:10 -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: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.22.0.93 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1178258086 23225 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2007 05:54:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 05:54:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; zh-CN; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=218.22.0.93; posting-account=6kCZYg0AAAAsKtpq2Yx1g8s5QVPe6yiU Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148034 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:37:22 -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:43671 Archived-At: On Apr 24, 1:07 pm, 30ish emacs user wrote: > I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are > you? I'm 32. > > 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. > > The older generations were more probable to be exposed to vim or emacs > first and they "stuck" with it (know the advantages), not migrating to > graphical editor land. > > That's only an assumption and I'd like to verify it. Would you please > post your age if you're interested? The statistics could be > interesting. :) I'm 15 and I began to use Emacs and Linux recently. Nobody around me are using either of them. I got to know something about Linux, GNU, Emacs, then I was deeply attracted by them, for a reason which I myself don't know exactly. I try to use them as often as possible, even though I can't completely understand them. I sometimes felt tired and difficult while using them, but I just believe they are THE BEST, for an unknown reason. (I say that is unknown, because I am not able to tell my classmates what its advantage is. Also that is because I am not familiar with Emacs.) But I don't know whether it is good for me to use Emacs too early. (I mean whether it is too difficult for me, a young boy, to use Emacs.) I hope I could get some help about it. (As I am still LEARNING ENGLISH, I hope to be forgiven for the mistakes above, but please tell me to help me. And thanks to the Spell Checking of Emacs.)