> Hmmm, my way of learning emacs is to read the Emacs Tutorial but not to > read the Emacs Manual, because it goes into things too deep for newbies > IMO. Then, I try to code in emacs and eventually I get comfortable in > emacs key bindings. Only then I start to look into packages and elisp > programming. (emacs is actually what get me into learning scheme) > Alternatively, if you are used to vim, you could try Evil Mode, which > emulates vim key bindings.
I completed the evil-tutor thing in spacemacs yesterday, and think I'll get used to it. The main problem I had when getting started with emacs, is that the bindings appear to be random? With spacemacs finding the relevant commands was easy, (space b for buffer and n for next). I think that's easy to remember... and it comes with a lot of packages pre-installed and with sane defaults. I think that the vim key bindings are more known, since everyone has had to modify a config file over ssh and use :wq and insert mode, and that's pretty much all you need to get started.
