[abhirag]

It hurts to hear stigma and Emacs together in a sentence but I guess you are referring to the arcane keybindings of Emacs. In that case I use native keybindings for editing in Emacs i.e. the old Cntrl-C, Cntrl-V, Cntrl-A, Cntrl-Z, Cntrl-S and vim keybindings for executing commands i.e. for things like running code. This is a great setup for beginners so do contact me if you need Emacs to be used with native keybindings :)

Just to give an example of what can be done using org-mode, this is the project I am using to grok Literate Programming -- http://ray_tracer.surge.sh/

The whole thing is generated using one org-mode file -- https://gitlab.com/snippets/1710454

and this org-mode file is the one I work in, it will eventually generate the source code in separate files too, once I have finished the project.

This is what my setup looks like -- https://i.imgur.com/mqi8vPR.png

Anyways I can't convince you to use it, but hopefully I can convince you to give it a try, it isn't easy but it is worth it :)