The thing with Emacs is that sort-lines is a string you can copy and paste into a buffer, whereas in Visual Studio it's a command that you have to execute. Dis

The thing with Emacs is that sort-lines is a string you can copy and paste into a buffer, whereas in Visual Studio it's a command that you have to execute. Disclaimer: I don't know Visual Studio that well. Still, I suspect what I'm writing is true. I wrote about this in a separate comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28104243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28104243