[stuntkite]

Well a big thing that happened for me this year is losing OSX as my primary environment. So everything is in flux and has been for about six months. I don't see Apple turning around for what I need and I've been 100% linux desktop over this time period. I'm a long time linux and BSD user, but haven't had it as my primary OS in nearly a decade.

My job has shifted towards ops and managing kubernetes clusters at scale. Since I'm refiguring everything I used to do this year, I figure I might as well try things I always meant to that have been around forever and seem to do it just fine without buying into commercial tools (that largely aren't available for my platform anyway).

Because of my work focus on virtualization, my primary machine is starting to be a mini cluster and I have a 5 node rack adjacent. Being portable between all these environments is becoming an asset very quickly.

Maybe it's silly, but I'm not moving around comfortably in almost anything like I was. World's my oyster I guess.

[subjectsigma]

If you want zero-config portability, learn vim. It's installed everywhere and is very useful. But if you're set on emacs, here's some stuff that helped me.

The video on golfing is great to learn how to "think Emacs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE2haYu0co8

Avoid using Ctrl; either palm-press or map Capslock to Ctrl. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html

Don't lean heavily on movement commands, the easiest way to navigate around Emacs is searching. Instead of pressing C-p five times or even C-u C-p C-p, just search for the word you're going to with C-s.

Official reference card is good: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf

Steal heavily from other people's configs. Since you're new and you like org-mode see these two files: https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d/blob/master/settings/san... http://pages.sachachua.com/.emacs.d/Sacha.html#org2b182a5

Hope that helps.