This is excellent advice. I may make another go at it.
Like you, I've tried before. After a day or two of trying to remember alt-command-blah-blah-blah every time I wanted to do something simple, I gave up. Then I started mousing around which totally defeated the purpose of trying to pick it up.
I also found (at least 7-8 years ago) the windows Emacs to be terribly slow. Hopefully that's not still true. That also effectively kills the learning experience after a while.
And then I type sort of what I want (with helm or ivy, it's a fuzzy match) and select it from the list, which brings up it's documentation and what keystrokes call it.
There is also `where-is` if you remember the name, or `M-x` (or `M-:`) if you don't mind typing it out.
Like you, I've tried before. After a day or two of trying to remember alt-command-blah-blah-blah every time I wanted to do something simple, I gave up. Then I started mousing around which totally defeated the purpose of trying to pick it up.
I also found (at least 7-8 years ago) the windows Emacs to be terribly slow. Hopefully that's not still true. That also effectively kills the learning experience after a while.