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I felt clunky doing NVIM and could never remember hotkeys for once a week -ish in-situ functional learning. Like I jump in FreeCAD for a few days, come back, and I can't recall a hotkey combo I only used once.

I think I can use Emacs lisp for some actual project goals with AI and other microcontroller projects involving FORTH, that I've never been able to figure out, and code complexity management issues I've never overcome. I still want the menu bar and am really unsure if the evil key bindings are for me. I would probably find it useful if I knew the vim bindings in situations like OpenWRT with busybox only, but it was the extreme complexity of navigating nvim help and key bindings that I found so useless to learn in-situ. Help me navigate this please. I'm being indecisive in a bad way about how to make this pretty, and get it configured.

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[–] nmtake@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Thankfully, with a modern minibuffer UI package (Ivy or Vertico, for example), we don't need to remember arcane key bindings to run rarely used commands. To run such command, just run M-x and enter a substring of the command name. This video (posted here months ago) explains this topic very well.

For Emacs's help system (Info), I recommend to try C-h R info.