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As you learn the key bindings keep thinking about how to use Emacs as your operating system and ask questions to experienced users in forums or to LLMs. Read the manual, slowly, over a period of weeks, then reread it. Eventually learn a bit more elisp and learn how to program your own environment. Once your shell is within Emacs, and 50% of your daily interactions with a computer happen through it, you quickly reach nirvana in your journey towards Emacs mastery and you get to enjoy the things you built yourself.



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