On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200(a)gmail.com> wrote:
  On Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rustom Mody
wrote:
 I'm perfectly OK with emacs if I knew anything about it.  :)  I know it's
 a little OT to ask, but if anyone knows of a slow, to-the-point tutorial
 for emacs that will cover getting me cool with the keyboard shortcuts, I'm
 all ears.  org-mode looks awesome, but those keyboard shortcuts are *damn*
 hard to learn.
 Josh
 
Most of basic orgmode is available through the menus (org and tbl are the
relevant ones)
The ones that have a keyboard shortcut have that listed in the menu when
and if you feel like learning it.
Yes the builtin tutorial is definitely perverse -- recommending Ctrl-P and
Ctrl-N over up and down arrows!!  But you can ignore this nonsense and
start there.
After that you can ask on gnu.help.emacs and/or the orgmode list (which is
very helpful)
Xah Lee has some nice emacs stuff 
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html
[Hes notorious for other reasons -- ignore that]
And of course you can ask me :-)