Tung is bloody from byting it...
Fact is that for the last 3 years I have been waiting for some things that bug me EVERY DAY to get improved (*1), none of which would require major work like split panes (which personally I never saw any use for, but I know others do).
For the last **2 years** TextMate has not seen any major enhancements other than bug fixes because all effort supposedly goes into a mystical TM2.
Other IDEs have been catching up. For Objective-C projects TM is rapidly loosing it's edge over xCode, similar things are probably true for Java and some other languages.
Damn right I am getting impatient!
Gerd
*1: - Non-word characters per language instead of global. - Double-click extend selection behavior with respect to non-word characters (should do one at a time). - Double-click on a brace should select to the matching brace (also for [],()). - I wish I could reverse click and alt-click when clicking on a fold marker, I rarely have use for just unfolding the next line or so because another block follows. Typically I am just interested in folding/unfolding whole methods/functions.