When I started with Emacs, I customized a bunch of things to make it behave in a more familiar way. That let me learn new things in small batches without taking a huge up-front productivity hit.
Over time I've changed a lot of things to be closer to defaults. But I've also kept some of my customizations (I still use cua-mode, for example).
One downside to this approach is that you may miss out on useful parts of Emacs because your customizations cover them up or conflict with them. But on the whole it has worked very well for me.
Over time I've changed a lot of things to be closer to defaults. But I've also kept some of my customizations (I still use cua-mode, for example).
One downside to this approach is that you may miss out on useful parts of Emacs because your customizations cover them up or conflict with them. But on the whole it has worked very well for me.