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Actually, in Emacs, you only need to know one shortcut, C-H t, which runs the Emacs tutorial. Takes ~45 minutes, and gives you enough knowledge to be productive. I say that not because I'm pushing Emacs: I'm pretty sure similar tutorials exist for the Vim family.

On the other hand, I can't imagine doing 19 lessons on VSCode shortcuts. Actually, I can, I just am sure I wouldn't remember much afterwards.

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Funny story: when I was starting on Linux, I have both the vim and Emacs tutorials a go. The vim one is just a text file you edit with various commands given.

During that tutorial I pressed the wrong thing and somehow deleted the whole file. I then thought, vim is not for me :)

I stuck with Emacs, though I recently discovered the joys of vim too.

To be productive in VSCode, you don't need to know any shortcuts or do any tutorials because it can be used completely via the gui. Doing 19 lessons on VSCode shortcuts is akin to doing an Emacs course, not a tutorial.

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