I forced myself to use emacs for about 6 months coming from IDEs and vi(m) to get past the "this is unfamiliar" stage. At the end of the day, it was a very nic

I forced myself to use emacs for about 6 months coming from IDEs and vi(m) to get past the "this is unfamiliar" stage. At the end of the day, it was a very nice text editor with a development environment embedded in it and the ability to tweak things to my work flows was certainly interesting. However, I never enjoyed the seemingly unintuitive default key bindings and I often found myself disappearing into rabbit holes and tweaking stuff just to make everything work more smoothly. Ultimately, I decided that was time I should have been spending on more productive pursuits. To this day though, I don't regret giving emacs a spin and I still swap caps lock and ctrl on all my systems. Remapping that key binding is helpful for so many things outside of emacs.