- files and command line sessions are both just windows. You can split, move them, and EDIT (including output from CLI commands) anything you want. This feels much more natural than having a dedicated run section in the editor or using a separate terminal (that obviously can't be split next to a file window).
- a really short list of commands it supports (very little to memorize). But since it's so easy to interact with acme through the filesystem, you can easily customize your own workflow. For example I wrote https://github.com/mjibson/aw which is a web interface to Go's guru. But there are at least 2 other acme interfaces to guru, both with different methods of interaction, depending on what the author preferred. Overall I like this a lot more than memorizing a pile of vi shortcut keys.
- manipulating text is pretty fast with the mouse + acme's chords and the esc key.
- right click to search or go to file:line is much more powerful than you expect.