COMPARISON.md

Comparison

Each scenario consists of a JSON object before and after editing. The "|"-symbol signifies the cursor position from which to start editing.
The "keys"-Section may contain TEXT which is dependent on the input and equal across editors. Hence it is not counted in the total key score. US keyboard layout is used as a baseline since that's what I and most programmers I know use. Dvorak might shave off a few keypress here and there.

Insert property

{
  "Charlie Kaufman": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind|",
  "David Fincher": "Zodiac"
}

{
  "Charlie Kaufman": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind",
  "Christopher Nolan": "Memento",
  "David Fincher": "Zodiac"
}

	Keys	n
Syntactor	Enter → TEXT → Tab → s → TEXT	3
IntelliJ	Shift + Enter → Shift + ' → TEXT → → → Shift + ; → Space → Shift + ' → TEXT → → → ,	12
VIM	o → Shift + ' → TEXT → Shift + ' → Shift + ; → → → Space → Shift + ' → TEXT → Shift + ' → ,	14

Delete Property

{
  "|Charlie Kaufman": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind",
  "Christopher Nolan": "Memento",
  "David Fincher": "Zodiac",
  "Michael Bay": "Transformers 7"
}

{
  "Charlie Kaufman": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind",
  "Christopher Nolan": "Memento",
  "David Fincher": "Zodiac"
}

	Keys	n
Syntactor	↓ → ↓ → ↓ → Ctrl + d	5
IntelliJ	Page Down → ↑ → Ctrl + y → ↑ → End → Backspace	7
VIM	3 → Enter → d → d → ↑ → End → Delete	7