Yeah I bought BBEdit a few years ago and it cost almost 6 times what TextMate cost. It was something like $350 Australian dollars.

I sent a few questions and suggestions to their support team and I recieved a pathetic condecending email explaing very pretentiously why it was not possible to highlight interpolated variables inside strings because of 'XML Parsing Rules'.

I paid another $80 odd AU dollars for the 7 to 8 update. What was in 8 that was not in 7? A document drawer. So I paid $80 dollars for a document draw... Really.

Textmate was about $60 AUD and I get daily builds, I can speak to the author directly and the application kicks arse!

So all you poo-poo'ers can get stuffed because it's well worth the cost. If Textmate was $350 AU I'd probably pay that much, too.

(And also for the record I own a license of Zend Studio, and I paid about $450 AU for that, and they suck, too. I won't be renewing that license, that's for sure!)

--RYan