From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anders Wirzenius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:39:57 GMT Organization: Sonera corp Internet services 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 1177943653 30495 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 14:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:34:13 +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 16:34:12 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 1HiWx6-0006RY-Dr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:34:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiX3I-00036F-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:40:32 -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!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.251.142.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi Original-X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1177940397 194.251.142.2 (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:39:57 EEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:39:57 EEST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147803 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:43406 Archived-At: Martin Fischer writes: > >>>>> 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. > > > > Hi, > > I'm nearly 57, using emacs since 16 years. After leaving VAX/VMS/LSE I > encounterd emacs, when I started working in a large, nearly collapsing > software project. It didn't fail in the end, which had a lot to do > with the use of free software like emacs, gcc, gdb, cygwin. > > Cheers > > Martin > -- 56. Emacs user since 10 years. With MS Windows at work and Linuxes at home Emacs is friendly and familiar "day and night". I used VAX/VMS/EDT extensively in 1980's and experience similar possibilities to build up your own context now with Emacs. Emacs has an excellent Ada mode. -- Anders Wirzenius