For the most part it comes down to not having to use the mouse.  I can edit in Vim and use ChucK shell and play for hours without touching the mouse.  I am also used to vim commands and can edit much faster with them which makes a Huge difference in live coding.

 

I also just fired up the Mini and noticed that shell in the Mini (I was using the command line 'chuck --shell') crashes the Mini when I try to add a shred. :(

Oh well.  I'm just going to stick with the command line version and hope someone realizes that the shell is where it is at.  If the capability to really live code in the shell (navigating namespaces and stuff beyond just adding/removing shreds etc.) grew, it would be incredible (fingers crossed).

Later.