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> From: 30ish emacs user <kalap.kabat@freemail.hu>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:07:18 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> 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.

??? What's not graphical about Emacs?  Are you familiar with Speedbar,
Customize, and gdb-ui, to name just a few very graphical features?
Modern Emacs has menus, scroll bars, tool-bar buttons, tooltips
(a.k.a. balloon help), and all the other attributes of a GUI program.