Programming Text Editors

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Well... I know it's a question which has been discussed a lot, but I couldn't find something to satisfy my needs.

I want a text editor which is going to be used exclusively for programming, mainly HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/SQL, so syntax highlighting has to be on the features list. I'd also like it to be free, to include tabs, and to be as configurable as possible.

I tried TextMate, which is awesome, but I need something free, no doubts about this. I tried vim, but the command-line is not really something I'm familiar with, and for that reason, I sometimes lost the mood to program. I tried TextWrangler, and I can't remember much, for some reason, I know I trashed it.

Any ideas?

 

[Catch-22]

Try Emacs. There's very few free ones out there actually. If you're looking for something decent then you're going to have to fork out some moolah.

 

[kasakka]

If you liked TextMate, why not just buy it and be done with it. I haven't found anything that is as good and IMO it's not exactly expensive.

 

[angelwatt]

Since you like Vim, you may be interested in MacVim. It gets you out of the command line and does tabs.

I personally enjoy using BBEdit (TextWrangler's big brother). It's lightweight and supports AppleScript execution as well as a fully customizable menu shortcuts. It doesn't do tabs, but keeps documents in a single window (or multiple if you want). I find it easier than tabs personally, especially when I have 20+ documents open.

 

[miles01110]

Oh...Textmate does have tabs. Why'd they hide them in Project mode? That's stupid...