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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, I've been meaning to switch to Emacs for some time now, but when
> I gave it a first attempt I found it a bit daunting.  It's not like
> anything I've used before.  How do you suggest a newbie go about
> getting up and running?  

Start with the built-in tutorial, by typing Control-H T (the splash
screen says how to do that).  After that, there's tons of other
beginner's guides:

https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs+tutorial

http://emacslife.com/ also points to some resources.


> Is there a way to make it GUI to start with?

It's not really a GUI program.  There's a fork called XEmacs that's
slightly more (still not fully) guified, but I don't know if it runs on
Windows.