From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:54:06 +0200 Organization: none Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177967472 32467 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 21:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:11:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 23:11:09 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 1Hid9A-0005Ni-9f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:11:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HidFN-0007ml-S1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Shakespeare: "Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove." -- Sonnet 141 User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:NmsnXQrG7QeTRd7H0jj2FVXckP8= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 2007 18:54:16 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a471ccb7.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=YnjRi\4[X::; ]cDoEWD6A44IUK 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:43422 Archived-At: >>>>> 30ish emacs user writes: > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:07:18 +0000 (UTC) > > 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. :) How old is RMS ? -- parozusa at web dot de