ITT I learn GNU Emacs!

Questions will follow!

use elvis instead.
unless you want something easy to learn. then you should use mined. but if you wanted something easy to learn you wouldn't be trying to learn emacs.

Emacs tries to be a powerful editor with shortcuts for every command, but fails because these shortcuts are braindamaged and the way Emacs works is just counter-intuitive. Get Kate, PSPad, or something like that, use the standard keys you've learnt, then define your own for the more advanced features as you like.