From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amy Templeton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:46:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87y7khbofp.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bqhd4swc.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177440109 26823 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 18:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:41:49 +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 20:41:48 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 1HgPxT-0007Xo-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgQ30-0004Tj-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgQ2n-0004TT-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgQ2l-0004TH-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgQ2l-0004TE-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgPxD-0006rf-DB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so2326235wxc for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:41:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:references:x-now-playing:x-antipastobozoticataclysm:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=SJIUFqQcOH5+dfUyayczRdB8zPD45b/kfBcd5roRClhxMsmR8h9bIKayfmywFSbnLvei2hw80XSNNH+AfJmjeqSmphC8Vj7YYLdJNvW8V9NCrKPCYNh4lIkvp/LFIUW2lDWJ9P7iI0bPjF1vKtOxyzsdFCh3GrvEyzBLGxVbJag= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:references:x-now-playing:x-antipastobozoticataclysm:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=M7GOVX7Mv+3T3qJaCIyFEVnploWMd3sx3kLr53Rwyvzu1hAYNY5aotfjkdCM83pobFxlQc5xmg2LwnT2rVM+/9P1hApgckIg53xtgP3bdgZzmPATZMRUuHp0ckXFJ8aZMVeMkN4veGn1J8jkm75guDNYdhahrYoqdV8b5nHDsdY= Original-Received: by 10.90.53.16 with SMTP id b16mr2824943aga.1177440091008; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ( [132.162.245.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 38sm9820357agd.2007.04.24.11.41.30; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:41:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Now-Playing: Girlyman - Good Enough X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: Bariumenemanilow User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:43116 Archived-At: 30ish emacs user wrote: > I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are > you? I'm 32. Looks like I'm a baby. I'm 20 and started learning Emacs when I was 18, when I started learning/using GNU/Linux. Somebody a little ways back said something about the interface not being "friendly" or something because it lacks flashy buttons and popups and stuff, but I actually had to turn all of that stuff off because that's part of why I can't use most other computer applications (I tend to use Emacs for nearly all my computer-related work). So there are those of us who gravitate to Emacs partially *because* it has the option to be made un-flashy and annoying (no offense to whomever designed those features for Emacs--they work very well for what they are). In my case, of course, this was also partially because I like having all my work in one place, and because I'm not very good at using the mouse and prefer to type everything or have that option, and because I like tinkering with things because I'm somewhat OCD, which elisp certainly leaves open the option for...not to mention Emacs's phenomenal, cosmic powers as compared to, say, Notepad or MS-Anything. So yeah, that's my two cents. Amy