The best way to stay motivated to learn emacs is to get benefits from it very quickly. In my case, I was in undergrad school and my annoyance with MS word form

The best way to stay motivated to learn emacs is to get benefits from it very quickly. In my case, I was in undergrad school and my annoyance with MS word formatting led to latex. I did not want to learn all the keywords, so the latex mode helped me quickly to get over the hump. Check this out for creating html in emacs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAd41VAXWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAd41VAXWo Pick your favorite language (something popular), load up the mode and get to work :)