Hey Allan & David, First, thanks for filling a major void in OSX land. I've been using UltraEdit on Windows for several years until I bought a Powerbook in August. I love everything about OSX except the lack of a solid (and reasonably priced) text editor. Thanks to ditto, I think I found one.

So far I'm pleased with TextMate, though I haven't been able to use it much. The single biggest problem I've found so far is that it seems to load files entirely into memory. Try loading a 100MB enterprise server log in TextMate and you'll see it die while consuming megabyte after megabyte of memory. UltraEdit by contrast only loads what it needs into memory, making it very very fast while viewing and manipulating large files. UltraEdit handles GB-size files without breaking a sweat. I think the only complication around that is line numbering becomes slightly more involved.

The second feature I'm looking for is a hex view/edit/search&replace. Being able to locate and fix an invalid UTF-8 character sequence inside an XML file that is causing my application to bomb has proven to be a critical feature. Hex search&replace comes in handy when I need to remove all 0x00 characters from a file, for example.

Finally -- and this should be the easy one -- please add a "count" button to the search window. Often I want to count the occurrences of a certain error message in a log, or see how many things I'm about to change by search&replace.

That's it (for now ;) Keep up the good work!

Thanks, Kevin Hunt