Also preparing for Emacs.
I started from Kate/Kwrite (for real developing). Also agree that big IDE at start is bad idea. Now I need a well configured editor. I don’t care about default settings/shortcuts - I would like to prepare menus and shortcuts on my own - only in that way I’m most productive.
Yeah, taking a two bigger things to learn at same time is also bad idea - I fully agree.
Similar here, but I tried more editors and IDE(s) and yes I will probably end up as you said. 
Big (static) HTML documents is (at least for me) bad way. I prefer to generate all stuff except core things like layout.
I prefer to configure editor on my own rather than stay with “someone habits” all the time. There is no default configuration that everyone will love - especially not me. I have a really good gaming keyboard and mouse with lots of extra keys, so it’s time to use them. I will probably don’t need other menus that context menu, so any default configuration with other menus visible is not good for me. 
