emacs-writer VS ergoemacs-mode

I meant to do that—thanks for the reminder. I don't particularly like the default welcome screen—I think I might eventually make something like what I've got with Amethyst.

Here's a setup I made for my non-technical wife: https://github.com/ashton314/amethyst

Inspired in pat by this article, I put together a quasi-Emacs distribution for my wife who is a writer. It turns on several of the suggestions in this article by default, such as CUA mode, etc.

https://github.com/ashton314/amethyst

Maybe the amethyst starter kit might be helpful? Also the system crafters videos and Mike Zamansky's videos

See my code on GitHub.

It's a tiny tweak that gives something like 1% of the functionality.

The real, useful, working CUA mode for Emacs is here:

https://ergoemacs.github.io/

If you start with framework you might not learn enough to solve problems later, but using it later to simplify your config should be ok. For example ergoemacs http://ergoemacs.github.io/ is a nice way to make Emacs more ergonomic and easier to use(if having problems with default configuration).

For example I use https://github.com/ergoemacs/ergoemacs-mode, with some commands that I have acquired as muscle memory from using Emacs/mg for long. And still I use nano when I need to do small edits to a file. I also do it almost without thinking about it, especially when doing "sudo nano whatever". Mg should be better for me, but nano is engraved into my palms for some reason.

That documentation seems very outdated. The changelog is from 2013 and that function was removed (according to an issue) before 2015.

Xah Lee and friends maintains a mode called ErgoEmacs that implements most of the changes he proposed: https://github.com/ergoemacs/ergoemacs-mode