Hey if you're really trying to have Emacs work in your dev environment, look into Autocomplete and flymake (though I'm assuming you've heard about them already)

Hey if you're really trying to have Emacs work in your dev environment, look into Autocomplete and flymake (though I'm assuming you've heard about them already) and some more of the package repos (marmalade, etc)... They should be able to help replace the features that IDEs offer... I no longer know what to do when I get in an IDE. I have found it so hard to develop on windows that I downloaded emacs to Windows, and now, that's the only way I develop. Though, I have to look at the docs quite often usually have the docs up in one window and emacs in the other. I think that keeps me honest about how much I actually know whatever it is I'm using -- If I'm spending too much time looking up the docs/stack overflow for a particular tool, that is an easy way to gauge how proficient I am.