Sure, but using the menus is just the starting point on the learning curve. After staring at 'em for a while you figure out what "C-x C-f" means and pretty soon

Sure, but using the menus is just the starting point on the learning curve. After staring at 'em for a while you figure out what "C-x C-f" means and pretty soon you're playing pinkie twister with the best of 'em. That's the way I learned emacs, anyway. Of course there's many, many hidden depths I've never learned after nine years.