I hear you. The only way I could get around trying to learn Emacs was to stop and actually use it as my daily driver (making a pact with myself not to use anot

I hear you. The only way I could get around trying to learn Emacs was to stop and actually use it as my daily driver (making a pact with myself not to use another editor for 15 days). Given "normal" editor keys (cursor keys, page up/down) work out of the box in Emacs, this wasn't hard (you could enable CUA additionally for regular cut, copy, paste, I stuck with kill and yank though).