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 tokens are pulled from the two per-tool reference tables, so the comparison cannot drift from the data: if a command is renamed in one tool's documentation, the per-tool page changes and this page is regenerated from it.

Claude Code vs Cursor

19 tasks. Claude Code and Cursor's agent CLI both expose a slash-command layer on top of a chat prompt, and the two vocabularies overlap more than either vendor's marketing suggests: /clear, /model, /plan, /goal, /fork, /rewind, /rename, /resume and /logout exist in both with the same meaning.

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

27 tasks. Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI are the two terminal agents whose command sets have converged hardest.

Vim vs VS Code

23 tasks. Vim and VS Code are not two keymaps for the same model of editing; they are two models.

Bash / Shell vs PowerShell

22 tasks. Bash (through readline) and PowerShell (through PSReadLine) both give you an editable command line with history search, but they inherit different conventions: readline's defaults are Emacs-style control and meta keys, PSReadLine's defaults are Windows text-editing keys.

Excel vs Google Sheets

30 tasks. Google Sheets deliberately copied most of Excel's keyboard layer, so navigation, selection, fill, date/time insertion, F2, F4 and Ctrl + ` are identical in both.

NVDA vs JAWS

23 tasks. NVDA and JAWS share far more single-letter web navigation than their reputations suggest: H for headings, F for form fields, B for buttons, T for tables, L for lists and G for graphics are identical in both.

Microsoft Word vs Google Docs

24 tasks. Word and Google Docs agree on nearly every everyday editing key: the clipboard, undo and redo, bold, italic and underline, hyperlink, page break, find-and-replace and the heading shortcuts Ctrl + Alt + 1 to 3 are the same in both.

AutoCAD vs Civil 3D

19 tasks. Civil 3D is built on AutoCAD, so every AutoCAD command alias — L, C, TR, EX, O, M, CO, RO, H, LA, PR and the rest — works unchanged inside Civil 3D.

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 a note 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 equivalent in one tool is shown as such.

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 full reference for both tools, and both sides are checked against the tools' own documentation on the dates shown.