From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 02:17:38 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87fy6hmoz1.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <1177927231.508493.179300@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178055597 30668 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 21:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:39:57 +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 May 01 23:39:54 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 1Hj04e-00088H-Qc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:39:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hj0Az-00049p-I2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 17:46:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RQjvslE2hPIyP4Ms8RzCrYvxy8E= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.186.70.216 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=10@C0PAG=DNhAD6WOTE2YEYSB=nbEKnkKCA74; ^LPKQCL^MjGX7f^UIZ@YZIVH^FlI5UnCJ2]; Z1TSD7UA Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147857 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:45:40 -0400 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:43462 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > I'm 28, I've used Emacs for ~8 years. The age distribution seems to > be interestingly even, many people from almost every decade of adult > life. I'm 31, and I have been using Emacs on and off for about 12 years. At first, I was using /usr/bin/vi of SunOS, but after I managed to install Linux on my i486 PC at home, Emacs was and still is my favorite. > I would have thought that there would be two sets of people: Young > people who discovered Emacs via the web and Linux/GNU recently and a > older generation that discovered it installed on *nix machines at > their work or university. But it seems not, if the thread is > representative then a steady stream of people have been introduced to > it for a long time. Heh! At least part of this steady stream of new Emacs fans is bound to be a result of the extensive evangelising some of us keep going. Many of my friends and colleagues know me as "the guy who can turn any flamewar, err, I mean `conversation', to a discussion of the cool features of some Emacs part", and it may please you to know that at least _some_ of this effort to educate people about Emacs appears to work :-) - Giorgos