I've been using for months. It took a while, and the O'Reilly book, Yegge's post, and EmacsWiki were all extremely helpful (in that chronological order). You mi

I've been using for months. It took a while, and the O'Reilly book, Yegge's post, and EmacsWiki were all extremely helpful (in that chronological order). You might also consider just reading the manual too (although you might want to hold off until you have more experience). Another resource that will be really helpful somewhere in there is to just type C-h C-h. You'll see a listing of various kinds of help. I use these a lot, especially to explore something new: C-h k (type any keyboard shortcut) "what does this shortcut do?" C-h b "list all keyboard shortcuts from all modes in the current buffer" C-h f (type a function name) "what does this function/command do?" C-h v (type a variable name) "what does this variable do, and what is its value?" C-h a (type a regexp) "list all commands matching the regexp" M-x apropos (type a regexp) "list commands, functions, variables, etc. matching the regexp"