I’m coming across stuff on the emacs wiki like Project Buffer Mode and SLN Mode
Are these old packages like everything else in Linux; not relevant or usable any more? I’m not sure if “just try them” is the right idea here, or even how to go about doing that (yet). Do you have any other suggestions or options? I’m trying to see the project view of the open source game Cataclysm DDA. They seem to be using a Windows system for development now and I’m seeing several little elements that are not getting compiled the same between their builds and what make produces with GCC. Perhaps the stuff in the project files would reveal more detail. (learning, but this is over my head and outside of my comfort zone)
The free Visual Studio Community Edition will open .sln files.
Edit: lol. No, I’m not lost. OP needs to open an SLN file to see what’s in it. I see no compelling reason to contort emacs to do that, when a free (but not FOSS) tool will get the job done.
In ops shoes, I would install VS Community, examine the SLN, remove VS Community, and throw away the SLN.
.SLN files are terrible. So hopefully OP isn’t looking for away to keep around.