But I’d argue learning basic Emacs key bindings gives you the benefit of becoming better on any Linux terminal. Going through the tutorial does not take much time.
I think the author is right about the arcane terminology („meta key“, „buffer“, „window“, „frame“ etc) that should be changed and, too, configuring CUA Mode by default to help newbies a bit. I personally prefer using „control c“ and „control v“ for copy and pasting. Mind you if you like to use keyboard macros, you can’t use CUA mode copy/cut/paste bindings in them. That confused me quite a bit as beginner. However, I don’t think I ever got confused by Emacs undo system. It basically does the same thing as in other editors, just the key binding is different.
> It basically does the same thing as in other editors, just the key binding is different
I think it's the way redo works that's confusing, not necessarily undo itself. The way you have to undo, then use another command so the undos themselves become undoable, and redo by undoing the previous undos. That's not how most editors work.
I think the author is right about the arcane terminology („meta key“, „buffer“, „window“, „frame“ etc) that should be changed and, too, configuring CUA Mode by default to help newbies a bit. I personally prefer using „control c“ and „control v“ for copy and pasting. Mind you if you like to use keyboard macros, you can’t use CUA mode copy/cut/paste bindings in them. That confused me quite a bit as beginner. However, I don’t think I ever got confused by Emacs undo system. It basically does the same thing as in other editors, just the key binding is different.