2 stripe blue belt here! I used to use Vim for everything other than Java development and have now adopted Emacs in the same way. I am using it for Clojure and

2 stripe blue belt here! I used to use Vim for everything other than Java development and have now adopted Emacs in the same way. I am using it for Clojure and Common Lisp development along with org mode, irc, rss, git and file management I started with Evil mode and then moved to Xah fly keys before sticking to the emacs bindings. Having the caps lock key bound to CTRL helped me a lot. I don't know if it makes that much of a difference for Emacs but using the DVORAK layout has helped my fingers There are other bindings you can try like Meow or God mode but I don't know what the adoption rate is like for them. Emacs gives you the flexibility to set it up as you please. As others have mentioned, there may be other keyboard options that might be more helpful as well https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/xah-fly-keys.html http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/xah-fly-keys.html https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/meow-edit/meow https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode