Honestly I never devoted myself to trying emacs, but I learned vim the same way you're being inspired. Seeing other people, asking "Hey how'd you do that?" and

Honestly I never devoted myself to trying emacs, but I learned vim the same way you're being inspired. Seeing other people, asking "Hey how'd you do that?" and then going from there Taking those and making a point to work them into muscle memory has been key. Eventually I found that I was familiar with the core modifiers (and figuring out new things) without any real effort. I knew that shift + something would do a specific thing It takes knowing about the thing... and using it so much that you don't even have to think about it The cases where I'm a little bit beyond what one can reasonably handle with sed is when I get to flex the vim muscles. Things like visual mode, finding/replacing, etc.