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I was really excited about Visual Studio for a chance at Coffeescript intellisense, however I learned after the several gig download it wasn't supported. It seems there is basically no way to get proper autocomplete in any editor for CS, suggesting maybe I should just consider Babel for ES6/7 despite my massive love for CS and giant projects built in it.

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Have you tried the (free) Web Essentials extension? It adds CoffeeScript support to Visual Studio, as well as a lot of other useful webdev features. http://vswebessentials.com/features/coffeescript

You might want to check out sublime with the 'Better Coffeescript' and 'CoffeeComplete Plus' packages. I've been using it for a while and, while it's not perfect, it's the best I've found.

https://github.com/aponxi/sublime-better-coffeescript https://github.com/justinmahar/SublimeCSAutocompletePlus

I agree, and it's close to usable but not quite. There are a few outstanding breaking issues on the repo that I wish someone who knew how it worked could fix, but the project looks abandoned.

I actually heavily modified sublime-better-coffeescript to support highlighting function-calls and I added proper CSJX support.

Been meaning to make a pull request; but these Sublime plugins are always so easily abandoned and under maintained that there's no point.

Webstorm has CoffeeScript support too.

https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/coffeescript-support...

WebEssentials extension for this. I use it with CoffeeScript and LESS.

Have you tried IntelliJ IDEA?

I've tried Webstorm and assumed IntelliJ IDEA had the same pitfalls, which, if I recall correctly, was poor performance and flaky autocompletion. I'll have to download it anyway and try though, if only to see what it looks like to have intellisense!

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