I've been using emacs for several years. If you saw my init file, you'd think it was kind of funny. It's mostly to change the look from default to a black box.

I've been using emacs for several years. If you saw my init file, you'd think it was kind of funny. It's mostly to change the look from default to a black box. I do have some functions for connecting to databases, but for the most part, there are no deep customizations. I also have avy (think that's jump mode in vim), ldo for file browsing, yasnippet (for snippets), multiple-cursors, and some language-specific major and minor modes. I mainly want to press C-c C-c and get my work done. ------ As a general rule, emacs is pretty easy: * C = basic * M = more powerful * CM = most powerful. So... * C-f = move forward one character * M-f = move forward one word * CM-f = move forward one bracket A lot of things are sort of mnemonic: * f - forward * b - back * r - rectangle * s - search * r - reverse search The biggest thing to remember is that "yank" has the opposite meaning in Emacs. In emacs, you can either "kill" (cut), or "copy", then you "yank" to (paste). This is a function of how the Emacs "kill ring" works. This extends to the above: * C-y - yank the last item * M-y - scroll back through the backlog of the kill ring. Everything sort of falls out from this logic. If had to be completely honest with you, I probably use 20% of the total functionality of Emacs. It's a huge system, but I get my work done efficiently and don't sweat that I can't write a bunch of elisp from memory.