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You can just use an Emacs that is displayed in an X-Window and use menus and clicking. You do not have to rely on all the shortcuts.

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Yeah, my wife took a c++ class and that's what I showed her to use. She didn't know any shortcuts but could move around and code with no problems using only the arrow keys on the keyboard and the menus. (On a Ubuntu machine no less.)

If you do not have a Unix machine, thanks to virtualization they are now easy to set up without risking a heart attack in a normal user:

Just fire up a VirtualBox, and install Ubuntu in there. The hardest part about a Linux installation is most often the partitioning--but you can just use the whole virtual disk.

Or you just download a pre-installed image of a VM.

yep, but that sort of defeat the purpose. If you use emacs by the menu, are you really using emacs at all ?

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