I’ve switched to TextMate for my work development (which is mostly HTML, CSS, and XSLT at the moment, plus Ruby and Python for Beyond). And I’m liking it. Granted, I haven’t read the manual yet and so my fingers are really missing vi keystrokes, but I’m going to learn the TextMate keystrokes. Before long I’ll be setting the keyboard on fire. :) Anyway, the project management stuff is really cool, as are bundles and column editing and I’m sure everything else I haven’t discovered yet. But soon, soon… As far as TextMate’s minimalism goes (interface-wise), that’s fine by me. Vi is minimalist, too, and that’s what I’ve used for years. Make no mistake — I still love vi — but since it’s not a Mac-native app, I sometimes run into issues (with Unicode, for example). TextMate seems easier in that respect, less a pain. We’ll see how it goes, and if it continues to be a good experience, then when the 30 day trial runs out I’ll be buying a license.

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