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Have you ever programmed in C#? That's what VS is good at.

The point I made in the post is that while VS might be better with C#, Emacs works well with everything, works Good Enough with most languages, and pretty good for C#. In fact, looking over the feature list for Emacs C# editing (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CSharpMode), I can't find anything obviously missing from VS.

In any case, I don't want to learn a new environment every time I change languages.

Why would you learn Emacs if you do only C# or other MS technologies and have already mastered VS.And that was exactly what my comment was about. Emacs is the best general purpose tool that you can tweak to your needs and make it also superior in things of your choosing. VS works well what it was designed for.

Also as an Emacs user working on Windows I have to tell you that Emacs experience and performance is sadly subpar compared to OSX or Linux.

Why would you learn only one set of technology? I suppose that's my main issue.

As for emacs, have you tried Cygwin? I've heard it improves things.

> In any case, I don't want to learn a new environment every time I change languages.

I don't see anyone advocating that you be forced to do so. Hell, as a vi(m) user, Nature's perfect enemy of an Emacs user, I don't actually give a damn as long as you get the line-endings right.

If you were looking for a list of extensions for Emacs (or macros or whatever), then feel free to contribute a list.

Nah, I was just seeing if there might be some good extensions that I should look for (or write) in Emacs-land. None of them seemed to be all that worthwhile, IMHO.

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