...and at the risk of turning this into a lengthy "how (I think you should) to learn Emacs" thread, learn the help commands. _How_ to look up the hot key, how

...and at the risk of turning this into a lengthy "how (I think you should) to learn Emacs" thread, learn the help commands. _How_ to look up the hot key, how to look up the documentation for a key sequence, etc. Once you have your head around how Emacs works, and that it's self-documenting and you can dig into it, the path gets a lot smoother.