From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:36:29 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87odldiheq.fsf@debby.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177450693 10429 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 21:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: 30ish emacs user Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 23:38:12 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 1HgSiB-0003sM-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSnj-0006e2-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSmZ-0006BD-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSmX-00069H-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSmX-00068v-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgSgy-00047P-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.12.123.127] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML31I-1HgSgw2ywB-00064I; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:36:54 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HgSgX-0004B7-3G; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:36:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: (kalap.kabat@freemail.hu's message of "Tue\, 24 Apr 2007 05\:07\:18 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/ntHVeAZAy+Hk4MF+dOsdRa3Lefqm0Dr8ezt+ 3q4WSAwIO64cIYPcpI3pVInF9xeO1DDAy5l37kVIew2qPnQw/l 8caNuotOzTuFgt/CqZ2PGSVLyt9SkJR X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:43132 Archived-At: 30ish emacs user writes: > I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are > you? I'm 32. 44 > 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. Not quite I had to take a detour, started with the editor in Norton Commander (around 1990) and then learned the whole graphical Windows ballast. Must have been around 1997 when I started using Emacs under Windows because I had to edit Mathematica source files with deep levels of curly braces. Emacs was the best tool I somehow knew for finding the wrong braces. Bit by bit Emacs teached me also the value of Unix tools which I better got to know with Cygwin and this lead me ultimately in 2000 to abandon Windows completly at home for GNU/Linux. I also had a spell with vim, which I admire very much and which is in a sense even purer than Emacs but I found that Emacs is better (for my needs) and will stay now with it to the end. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany