From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jokhva@bbn.cn (Denise H. G.) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:36:08 +0800 Organization: Thou Shalt Not Message-ID: <86mz0xd3hj.fsf@mibsd.ka> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177443284 14446 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 19:34:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:34:44 +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 21:34:43 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 1HgQmh-0003Wb-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:34:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgQsE-00066E-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.cn99.com!news.yaako.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.218.142.207 Original-X-Trace: news.yaako.com 1177439768 9470 221.218.142.207 (24 Apr 2007 18:36:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.yaako.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:36:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fdpgFghACUHLKPtCEEalCmglHrw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147513 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:43118 Archived-At: 30ish emacs user writes: > 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'm 29, starting using Emacs 21 about four years ago. -- The verboten sign can keep out sin, but it cannot force a man to love virtue.