Hello, as someone who shied away from regular IDEs to use Emacs for programming work, I would recommend that you start setting things up for some very specific

Hello, as someone who shied away from regular IDEs to use Emacs for programming work, I would recommend that you start setting things up for some very specific need. As it was already pointed out, Emacs is huge and you will never stop learning it. Therefore, if your main line of work implies writing Java code, I would recommend you look for some tutorials that are particularly aimed at that, and build on those as you need more out of your editor. For example right now I am looking at learning org-mode to be able to do time tracking with it. If you seriously consider using Emacs all the time I would recommend remapping the Ctrl key to Caps Lock for easier typing. Since you were asking for some tutorials, these are the two tutorials that I found most useful in defining my Emacs setup: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs - specific things that are very useful in your configuration http://devblog.avdi.org/category/emacs-reboot/ http://devblog.avdi.org/category/emacs-reboot/ - someone in the ruby community, remaking his emacs config from scratch and explaining it as he goes I am no where near a proficient Emacs user, but maybe I can provide some insight as a fellow learner if you get stuck. I believe my e-mail should be in my profile if you have any problem starting up with Emacs. Have a nice day, Vlad