From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward Dodge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:29:32 -0700 Organization: Qwest Communications Corporation 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 1177745697 3973 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 07:34:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:34:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 09:34:54 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 1HhhSI-0004EL-Dh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhhYE-0001lt-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:41:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-04.inet.qwest.net!news.qwest.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/22.0.97 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9xS58agxne2PoysIUYVkA1zpEwc= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71c74ea4.news.qwest.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=?2^<9fJL]SK8[^GPKR@lOKF85SKJoGf>DH0Wd3cjgT8K<10Lm]nW5K Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@qwest.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147705 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:43308 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'm 38 and I started using Emacs 9 years ago. > 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. Outside of a TI-99/4a, the only computers I've had have been Macintoshes. And although my degree is in computer engineering, I didn't get interested in UNIX or Emacs until I attended a class on them at work at the end of '98. > 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. At the age of 29, I was pleasantly surprised by Emacs. I couldn't believe such an elegant tool was possible. I now realize there are better, more specialized tools for each of the different programming languages. But none are better than Emacs for general programming and futzing around in the textual world. -- Edward Dodge