The first thing every Emacs user should learn is how to customize key bindings. With global-set-key you can assign arbitrary keys (function keys etc.) to arbitr

The first thing every Emacs user should learn is how to customize key bindings. With global-set-key you can assign arbitrary keys (function keys etc.) to arbitrary commands. Of course you have to learn Elisp for that but that's not too hard. It is worth the effort to learn the basics of Elisp if you want to become really productive in Emacs. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Commands.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ke... Emacs is the most advanced programmable editor ever, and that's the reason why it is still alive. I use it every day for almost thirty years. Of course I don't use the default configuration but a very conventient custom one. In Unix you just need to know just two editors - Emacs and vi. Vi because it is the default editor on every Unix platform. At first vi's key bindings looked crazy but after a while they felt just natural.