The most formidable barrier I encountered when trying to pick up Emacs was simply the keyboard navigation. Please forgive and ignore this tone as much as possible, it is simply a defect of my writing style and doesn't reflect any real certitude. ![]() ![]() The tone of the following is quite insistent, as if I think I really know what the answers are. Of course, my fiddling is small-time dabbling compared to proper optimizers, but the fact that an interested, reasonably capable person such as myself was put off of Emacs 4 or 5 times before finally finding my groove should count as evidence for your premise. I should note that this difficulty was in spite of my already having a basic familiarity with Scheme (enough to make sense of simple init file hackery) and already being someone who spends countless hours seeking out and implementing tiny customizations (e.g., Stylish, Pentadactyle, Quicksilver, KeyRemap4MakBook––caps lock to ctrl! right shift to forward delete! space+j,k,l,i to arrows!––and a few other utilities of that sort). It took me a good bit of perseverance and several sallies at Emacs before I was finally able to find my footing. ![]() I found my way to Emacs after having spent some time with Sublime Text 2.
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