Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Kai Grossjohann]

37, been using Emacs since 18.59, now using Eclipse for Java
development.  (With viPlugin!  I can't stand the default Eclipse
keybindings, nor their approximation of Emacs bindings.  Without
viPlugin, I'd go insane.  viPlugin is not free software, though.)

I resisted Eclipse for a long time, but now I find refactoring and
quickfixes invaluable tools.  Completion in Eclipse is much better
than everything I've been able to obtain with Emacs + JDEE + ECB + the
bovine tools.  And the project navigation is really good, too, though
the distance to Emacs is not that big.

I started jde-quickfix.el (or was it jde-qfix.el?), but it remained a
proof of concept, not having achieved real usefulness.  It was too
difficult to parse the Jave code to figure out how to edit it
programmatically.  Perhaps these days the bovinator provides more
parsing information so it would be possible to edit the code.  Or
perhaps it would have been easier to parse the code myself than I
thought.

Indentation in Eclipse really sucks, though.

Kai



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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> That's only an assumption and I'd like to verify it. Would you please
> post your age if you're interested? The statistics could be
> interesting. :)