[mlaretallack]

I really respect people who can use emacs (and vim, vi etc...) they wiz around doing allsorts and make it look effortless.

The only reason I have not tried is I seem to spend most of my time thinking about the change, and the time saved is easily wiped out by the time taked to re-write the line 5 times.

[reddit_clone]

You don't really have to. Try DoomEmacs or something similar, very little tinkering needed to get going.