Comparison derived from Unix World Oct 1990
`New to Unix' column by Augie Hansen.
He compared vi with epsilon; this compares vi to GNU emacs.

emacs	vi

Cursor movement

C-a	0
C-b	h, BS
C-e	$
C-f	l, SPC
C-n	j, C-n
C-p	k, C-p
M-<	1G
M->	G
M-a	(
M-b	B
M-[	{
M-]	}
M-e	)
M-f	W

Insert text

C-o	o
C-q	C-v

Delete text

C-d	x
DEL	X
M-DEL	dB
M-d	dW
M-k	d)
C-k	d$
C-w	d'c
C-xC-o	dd

Controlling windows

C-l	:zCR

Reading and writing files

C-xC-f	:e
C-xC-s	:w
C-xC-w	:w file

Search and replace

M-%	:.,$s/s1/s2/gc
M-x replace-string	:.,$s/s1/s2/g
C-rESC	?
C-sESC	/

Marking and returning

C-@	mc

Typing mode

M-x overwrite-mode	R

Process control

M-!	:!
M-|	!!

Keyboard macros

C-x(	n/a
C-x)	"cdd
C-xe	@c

Miscellaneous

C-xC-c	:q
C-xC-x	'c, `c
C-x=	:f
M-x auto-fill-mode; C-xf	:set wm=n
C-g	C-c
C-t	xp
C-v	C-f
C-y	p
M-C-\	n>>
M-c	~
M-v	C-b
M-w	"bufyy