I'm trying out Emacs Prelude. Does anyone know how to make it stop complaining about using cursor keys ( <down> keybinding is discouraged! Use <C-n> instead )

i think that's guru-mode to help you become a guru

https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/troubleshooting/#warnings-on-arrow-navigation-in-editor-buffers

or weed out those who shall never ascend

thanks @dpsutton that did the trick 🙂

haha. no way. its customizable. i will say i love the emacs keybindings because they are system defaults and work in browser text areas, intellij, etc (on osx at least. control gets a bit abused on linux/windows)

but the point of emacs is to make it your emacs. anyone who says differently is missing the point 🙂

guru-mode is interesting. I will give it a try, I want to be a guru.