The focus of this book is to trim away the "expert friendly" and "cryptic" reputation Emacs has gotten over the years. Emacs is a very powerful editor. GUI Emacs strives to make that power available to users who don't want an editor with a steep learning curve. Once you enable EDT mode and use the keypad for navigation and most editing functions, you will find very few cryptic keyboard shortcuts are actually necessary. You will be taught how to obtain and install GUI (Gnu) Emacs. How to configure it to make your life easier and unlike far too many books covering Emacs, I point you to trusted repositories for any add-ons. The token bit of example code to show off various modes as well as the .emacs configuration file are all on SourceForge under themin-emacs project.