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Re: How old are Emacs users?
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Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: How old are Emacs users? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:36:29 +0200 |
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30ish emacs user <kalap.kabat@freemail.hu> writes:
> I'm wondering which age group most Emacs users fall into? How old are
> you? I'm 32.
44
> 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.
Not quite I had to take a detour, started with the editor in Norton
Commander (around 1990) and then learned the whole graphical Windows
ballast. Must have been around 1997 when I started using Emacs under
Windows because I had to edit Mathematica source files with deep
levels of curly braces. Emacs was the best tool I somehow knew for
finding the wrong braces.
Bit by bit Emacs teached me also the value of Unix tools which I
better got to know with Cygwin and this lead me ultimately in 2000 to
abandon Windows completly at home for GNU/Linux.
I also had a spell with vim, which I admire very much and which is in
a sense even purer than Emacs but I found that Emacs is better (for my
needs) and will stay now with it to the end.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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