Complaining about learning a text editor is hardly foolish. Takes time, and it's annoying. However, if it's genuinely "yet another", rather than merely "another

Complaining about learning a text editor is hardly foolish. Takes time, and it's annoying. However, if it's genuinely "yet another", rather than merely "another", sounds like learning emacs might help with your larger problem ;) (My tips would be: ignore the menu bar and ignore the scroll bar, spend time figuring out how the C-h help works, and don't (yet) try to fight its tendency to crap new windows everywhere. Oh, and overall, don't expect it to be any easier to learn than vim. It is just as bizarre and alien, in its own way...)