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Magit sounds great. If I only could use it without remembering a bunch of arcane emacs commands.

One of the things that make magic so great is precisely that one does not have to remember all the shortcuts. The author has written and released his own tool for popups and tooltips[0]. The keys are also among the more sane binds you find in Emacsland, so you can often browse by guestimation.

[0]: https://emacsair.me/2019/02/14/transient-0.1/

If you've memorized the arcane vim commands, try Spacemacs or Doom Emacs.

http://spacemacs.org/

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

In magit in those Emacs distributions, the question mark brings up a list of available commands and if you type the first letter of a command with multiple letters, it'll show you the names of the actions that start with that key.

use spacemacs and it's much more accessible. magit is phenomenal software and it's both a blessing and a curse that it's tied to emacs... it probably wouldn't exist as easily outside of emacs and it's a small pain to use for people that don't use emacs already.

Spacemacs makes emacs commands both less arcane and more discoverable. Give it a shot.

Spacemacs is my favorite way to use Emacs, I leave the Emacs keybindings for it, but you can still use some of the ergonomic shortcuts from it. I have never used Magit however, I just prefer using a GUI: Sourcetree on Windows / Mac is A+, Gitkraken is fine, but idk if I can justify $60 a year, and SublimeMerge doesn't "feel" ready for me just yet, but if it ever does I may consider it. The main way I do things overall is IntelliJ and Co's built-in git utilities. If something gets complex I switch out and into GitKraken or Sourcetree.

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