Yeah, well, I had the same problem with Emacs, after I switched to it from Vim. I thought that it was ridiculous to be learning new keys and commands all the ti

Yeah, well, I had the same problem with Emacs, after I switched to it from Vim. I thought that it was ridiculous to be learning new keys and commands all the time. To avoid it I learned Emacs Lisp, read some of Emacs C code and wrote a few k loc long Emacs config[1] along with a couple of libraries, not to mention installing and customizing hundreds of plugins. I never learned Emacs actually, I just rebound everything in a way that suited me and my memory and reflexes. So, there you have it. You don't need to learn Emacs at all if don't want to, just learn Emacs Lisp first! Although Org mode specifically has a rather unpleasant API. [1] https://github.com/piotrklibert/dotemacs_reloaded/tree/master/config https://github.com/piotrklibert/dotemacs_reloaded/tree/maste...