Uh, since when is Emacs mythical? This article is a bunch of noise. Yeah, Emacs expects you to play finger-twister sometimes (and I'm not convinced that's a good thing), and yeah, it's extensible as hell (which usually makes up for the awkward keybindings).<p>If you want to learn Emacs, quit fetishizing it with articles like this and just do it. Install it, start it, then hit alt-x, type "help-with-tutorial", and hit enter. Work through the (brief) tutorial. It's not that hard. I'm sorry if xkcd never told you about this.<p>Flagged.