You could just try it. It won't take long to adjust to, and you can stick to basic things so that you will be no less productive compared to working in any basi

You could just try it. It won't take long to adjust to, and you can stick to basic things so that you will be no less productive compared to working in any basic text editor. There are some things that you will have get used to in order to be able to use it at all, such as the seemingly archaic kill/yank functionality that is used instead of copy/cut/paste. And of course you want to test drive some of the more advanced features, to get a feel for what is possible in Emacs. But the point is that you can ease into these things; you won't get easily lost or overwhelmed. What you should perhaps be more concerned about is whether you will be able to go back to a plain text editor, once and if you choose to go down this rabbit hole..