From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer Stengele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177407397 4790 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 09:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:36:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 11:36:36 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 1HgHRr-0002tv-Ic for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:36:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgHXM-0000X6-27 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:42:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.germany.com!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: tomate.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1864nbvXdZu613xq92U7dCuKq0arpClycfS7AzoZezY7/dTrNPxD3QIiyuWYfeNOKQ4vwxTgoAxXWAoDZKuv9ixdVFvw+Va/NaokHk+WYzStdPDYg+qD6JUX5N9U7f5upQ0jakYw5eCUQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:56:26 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX188vNmF/ah5V9lN8Srxllftp+8Ja4RrHLzt1I+Qs928LA7JqHFbS6xp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0pre (Windows/20070401) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147448 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:43053 Archived-At: 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. :) > > > > long time vim user, still so over ssh, now started to dive into EmacsW32 with growing excitement, learning lisp in parallel. My colleague (18-generation "windows") is very hard to convince ... 42