From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hemant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:13:24 +0530 Message-ID: References: <1177421648.5726.34.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177422232 25541 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 13:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30ish emacs user , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "William Case" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 15:43:47 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 1HgLJ1-0004GS-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:43:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgLOX-0002Yy-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgLOI-0002XU-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgLOH-0002Wt-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgLOG-0002Wo-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:49:08 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgLIk-0008Ci-Hm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so2174348ana for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:43:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UneO8StqU2iFYbs7A9+C09k8abB3p5KA3u2Ku6eAbjee/38ZHrVqZITf1MrNl5rdgcpAn0Rm4AchRah8cYSMTrXEYD5nP37+c3WiaOwRBs1g35IHEIJD5ysFFCMVhz3qQ3nKvWyBJoAH/FQK2zVYiJJAW6RHc5QOaEALYZDaz1E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JWIpEaJB8kuoBd0Ibl4thBaecTuvFMCMADzEaCDo3DcAr3blVZURo0y7TsJJj00gYA/Jhs4VD+cApuGoPOB94tSi4hbEfVE7Yk38/f9QRiSSMGa3XjGS2/BT4aglYWiJbN3XhDege8g9mtQFM0l3WJb3IhOtQQwYOTEc2V+yZc8= Original-Received: by 10.115.59.4 with SMTP id m4mr1515818wak.1177422204653; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.156.2 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1177421648.5726.34.camel@CASE> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:43082 Archived-At: On 4/24/07, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:07 +0000, 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 am 63. The kids have moved out, my wife has passed away. I was no > longer getting enough confusion, frustration, anger and disappointment > in my life so 2 years I started using emacs. It has filled the bill > superbly. > > -- > Regards Bill I am 23 and using Emacs since last 5 years. Yet learning. -- gnufied ----------- There was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. http://people.inxsasia.com/hemant