Over at Where parallels cross, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it into his life.
Andrea was able to reconstruct his journey because he archived all his Org TODO files in which he kept a day-to-day task list. His archives detail the troubles he had installing mu4e when Mozilla stopped supporting Thunderbird as well as other significant Emacs milestones.
Andrea makes a telling point about learning Emacs: it’s often depicted as a long and arduous slog not for any but the most strong. Andrea says, however, that while the journey will be long, there’s no hurry and the trip can be an enjoyable one. I’ve certainly found that to be the case. After almost a decade and a half, my journey is far from complete but I’ve had fun learning new things about Emacs and adopting new packages and processes into my workflow as my needs evolved.
It’s a nice post and worth a read if, like me, you enjoy personal Emacs stories.