Compare Shortcuts and Commands: Claude Code vs Cursor, Vim vs VS Code

Each comparison lines up the same task in two tools and shows the literal key or command in each, with a dash where one tool has no documented equivalent. The keys and commands shown are checked against each tool's own reference page, which cites the vendor's documentation, so a comparison can be traced back to its source.

Claude Code vs Cursor

19 tasks. Many commands carry the same name in both agents; the page flags the renamed ones, such as /compact against Cursor's /summarize, and shows where Cursor's @-mentions go further than Claude Code's.

Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex CLI · Claude Code vs OpenClaw Hooks

27 tasks. In 21 of them Claude Code and Codex use the same slash command and in two more only the plural differs (/memories, /plugins); for the other four Codex uses a different command (/model, /review, /ps, /side). The OpenClaw page lines up 16 hook lifecycle moments instead.

Vim vs VS Code

23 tasks. The page sets Vim's modal, single-letter grammar against VS Code's chords and marks the gaps on each side: VS Code's page has no dot-repeat or macros, Vim's no comment toggle.

Bash / Shell vs PowerShell

22 tasks. Readline uses Emacs-style keys while PSReadLine on Windows defaults to Windows editing keys, so Ctrl + A and Ctrl + Y mean different things in each shell; PSReadLine's Emacs mode brings most Bash keys over.

Excel vs Google Sheets

30 tasks. Ctrl + Home, Ctrl + End, row and column selection, fill, F2 and F4 carry over; number-format keys differ mostly in how each list writes them, while hiding, inserting and deleting use other keys.

NVDA vs JAWS

23 tasks. Most single-letter web navigation keys match, with K and R as the traps for switchers. The page also covers JAWS's layered keystrokes, per-type element lists and how laptop layout moves the keypad reading commands.

Microsoft Word vs Google Docs

24 tasks. Everyday editing keys are shared; the differences sit in Save As, character styling (superscript, subscript, font size, strikethrough), the body text style, word count, redo and the Mac keys of each editor.

AutoCAD vs Civil 3D

19 tasks. Civil 3D inherits AutoCAD's command aliases and function keys unchanged; the keys Autodesk documents for Civil 3D itself are mostly Project Explorer ones, such as Z and P for the selected object.

What a comparison page is

Each comparison takes two tools that do the same job and lines up the same tasks side by side — not two shortcut lists next to each other, but one row per task with each tool's way of doing it, and prose around the table on where they differ in kind rather than in key. They are written for people switching between the tools, or using both, and the gaps in the tables are deliberate: a task with no documented equivalent in one tool is shown as a dash.

How comparisons are chosen

Pairs are added when the two tools are commonly used together or migrated between: editors, shells, spreadsheets, and the AI coding agents whose vocabularies overlap without matching. Each page links to the reference page for both tools, and both sides are checked against those reference pages, which cite the tools' own documentation, on the dates shown.