OP is getting hate, but I write a lot of Clojure code in Emacs, and I find the following commands cover 97%+ of my usage, maybe more. For config I use Emacs Liv

OP is getting hate, but I write a lot of Clojure code in Emacs, and I find the following commands cover 97%+ of my usage, maybe more. For config I use Emacs Live out-of-the-box, and remap Command on OSX to be my Ctrl. That's it. C-a, C-e, C-b, C-f, C-p, C-n, C-v, M-v for line/screen maneuvering. C-o for Ace-jump to go to the start of any words I see on the page. C-d to delete. C-s to search for words not on the page. C-k, C-y, and also how to use them with paredit to yank whole s-expression chunks. Buffer switching and killing. File saving and opening. I teach the above to any friends who want to learn Emacs/Clojure/LISP, leaving out a few other features like whole word deletion and more advanced paredit. With halfway decent aptitude and a little practice, they become productive very quickly (within a few hours, which is a pretty good investment relative to "normal" text editors in my book). Also, you can use a lot of the commands for normal OSX text editing, which further improves the investment.