what are your issues with TextMate.. ie.. what are your pains with it that are making you want to look elsewhere?
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what are your issues with TextMate.. ie.. what are your pains with it that are making you want to look elsewhere?
I'm gonna throw another vote behind Coda.
Back in the day when I first started doing web development on a serious level (in other words, I started to actually get paid for it), I found a freeware editor called Smultron which was kind of funky, but had one really excellent feature I became hooked on; the ability to split a window vertically, so you can see two separate files, or two parts of the same file, in one window. When it became apparent that Smultron wasn't going to cut it anymore, I was frustrated by the fact that this feature was so rare among other Mac editors (some have the feature to split the window horizontally, but I find that vertical splitting is much more useful, particularly on a wide-screen monitor). Coda's ability to do this was a major reason why I picked it over all others, including TextMate (which doesn't support splitting at all). Another big requirement is that it had a modern Mac-like interface and "feel" - so that excludes BBEdit, which is still stuck in the System 7 days; SublimeText, which is a nice try but still can't manage to get the close tab button on the correct side of the tab and other small but important things (see also Firefox); and heavyweight cross-platform abominations such as Eclipse.
That said, Coda isn't perfect. It has a lot of IDE-ish features I have no use for, like integrated file managers and reference books and such, but fortunately you can make those mostly go away and use it as a straight-up code editor without too much trouble. Worse, though, is that it sometimes flouts Mac interface standards, particularly when it comes to text selection with the keyboard and that sort of thing. It might seem esoteric, but to someone who spends all working day typing, it's important that these things work consistently. Also, though the aforementioned window splitting works well, the method for putting two different documents in each pane is downright odd. Still, Coda is currently the best at matching up with my workflow, and it's what I recommend to others with few reservations.
Back in the day when I first started doing web development on a serious level (in other words, I started to actually get paid for it), I found a freeware editor called Smultron which was kind of funky, but had one really excellent feature I became hooked on; the ability to split a window vertically, so you can see two separate files, or two parts of the same file, in one window. When it became apparent that Smultron wasn't going to cut it anymore, I was frustrated by the fact that this feature was so rare among other Mac editors (some have the feature to split the window horizontally, but I find that vertical splitting is much more useful, particularly on a wide-screen monitor). Coda's ability to do this was a major reason why I picked it over all others, including TextMate (which doesn't support splitting at all). Another big requirement is that it had a modern Mac-like interface and "feel" - so that excludes BBEdit, which is still stuck in the System 7 days; SublimeText, which is a nice try but still can't manage to get the close tab button on the correct side of the tab and other small but important things (see also Firefox); and heavyweight cross-platform abominations such as Eclipse.
That said, Coda isn't perfect. It has a lot of IDE-ish features I have no use for, like integrated file managers and reference books and such, but fortunately you can make those mostly go away and use it as a straight-up code editor without too much trouble. Worse, though, is that it sometimes flouts Mac interface standards, particularly when it comes to text selection with the keyboard and that sort of thing. It might seem esoteric, but to someone who spends all working day typing, it's important that these things work consistently. Also, though the aforementioned window splitting works well, the method for putting two different documents in each pane is downright odd. Still, Coda is currently the best at matching up with my workflow, and it's what I recommend to others with few reservations.