I think the key takeaway from this is that you need to focus on learning one thing at a time. If you want to learn how to program, don't distract yourself by trying to learn some complex text editor at the same time. Use whatever plain-text editor feels easiest to you. And use the environment that's easiest to get going in.
As you learn more, you'll find things that annoy you about your editor/environment. Fix those as you see fit. Eventually you'll have an environment that fits you "like a glove".
It's absolutely detrimental to try to get a fully customized environment set up before you know what your workflow is going to be like. It took me years to get to my environment (tmux, vim+plugins, ack, a VirtualBox environment with a proxy). I experimented a lot. But getting "the perfect environment" was never a goal; it was just a lot of "this is annoying, there has to be a better way -> google -> environment change".
As you learn more, you'll find things that annoy you about your editor/environment. Fix those as you see fit. Eventually you'll have an environment that fits you "like a glove".
It's absolutely detrimental to try to get a fully customized environment set up before you know what your workflow is going to be like. It took me years to get to my environment (tmux, vim+plugins, ack, a VirtualBox environment with a proxy). I experimented a lot. But getting "the perfect environment" was never a goal; it was just a lot of "this is annoying, there has to be a better way -> google -> environment change".