From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:54:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87odl3i2sg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1178122969.311877.43260@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178142514 3618 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 21:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:48:34 +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 23:48:32 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 1HjMgX-00041r-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 23:48:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjMmz-0003OM-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 17:55:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1f78VFVpgvoQy1+AThwsUgV/IlXrA2RYe7Uz7HeI7MpLbZNd33 X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykBpSHFEu1FRAW2ZQ51PtbeQViQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147917 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:51:16 -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:43540 Archived-At: Giacomo Graziosi writes: > 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 Google up cedet. I cant really quite "get it" but I assume it must work since its there. > some things like session restoring. > In my .emacs (desktop-save-mode) (desktop-read) Google them up for the options available or put your cursor on them and hit C-h f and then enter. --