I still remember learning Emacs for the first time, it was easy, Just time consuming.
Sure I'm still learning it (that's the nature of Emacs), but getting started is easy. Just read the tutorial to get a grasp of the basic commands and concepts, and as soon as you read about the built-in help system you're good to go.
If you don't know what a key does you just prefix it with do `C-h k` to get help. If you can't recall the keybindings do `C-h b`, and if you've forgotten all of this do `C-h ?`. The entire manual is just a `C-h r` away.
The built-in documentation makes it really easy to learn more, it just takes patience.
The trick with using the help system is that Emacs uses very different terminology than many people expect. (He touches upon this in the article.) You get used to it, eventually, but it does add extra work upfront.
The easiest way for me to pick up the terminology was to skim through the info page for Emacs (C-h i takes you to the info pages). After that, apropos became quite a bit more useful.
Sure I'm still learning it (that's the nature of Emacs), but getting started is easy. Just read the tutorial to get a grasp of the basic commands and concepts, and as soon as you read about the built-in help system you're good to go.
If you don't know what a key does you just prefix it with do `C-h k` to get help. If you can't recall the keybindings do `C-h b`, and if you've forgotten all of this do `C-h ?`. The entire manual is just a `C-h r` away.
The built-in documentation makes it really easy to learn more, it just takes patience.