I'm still an emacs rookie, but I've already been 'converted' to the point that I try to use emacs every time I need to write text - programming (at least if no

I'm still an emacs rookie, but I've already been 'converted' to the point that I try to use emacs every time I need to write text - programming (at least if no IDE is available), text files, LaTeX (what little I've written of it, anyway), word processing if it is feasible to write the text in the editor and then copy paste into a word processor to do the formatting later, editing text boxes in web browsers via a Firefox plugin (`It's All Text!'). The primary reason, at least for non-code text, is that I find it annoying to go back to using stuff like the arrow keys for navigating now that I'm kind of used to the arguably more ergonomic C-f, C-b and friends. So I can echo the sentiment that sticking to the basics of emacs at first can be well worth it.