TextMate is a good value. It's a small, fast editor and it makes me feel productive. Can't wait to see what's under the hood in 2.0.
I was just thinking about what I like in editors, and I still use Emacs and Eclipse depending on the project. I am switching to TextMate for a lot of other stuff.
I probably would be using SlickEdit right now- it's a favorite! Except it's expensive and it runs in X11 on Mac; it's not a native Mac UI. Feature I really like from SlickEdit are: * symbol/tagging system. I forget what they call it, but it can generate symbol lists to use for auto-complete and context help, for various different languages. * keybinding emulation modes; e.g it has Emacs and a handful of others.
But anyways I encourage Allan to make 2.0 the most awesome editor he can, and not spend too much time on everything and the kitchen sink - feature requests. Like the above, right ;-) Otherwise you end up with a Christmas Tree, not a lean & mean text editor.
Cheers