Ask HN: alternatives to Textmate?

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It seems Textmate 2.0 is taking forever to develop... what editors (for Mac OS) do you recommend for code development? Thanks!

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If you're married to the TextMate UX you should look at BBedit.

If you're open to trying an all-in-one I'd add Espresso from macrabbit and Coda from panic to my short list. Between the two I think most consider it a toss-up, although I slightly prefer the former.

I can't help but recommending Carbon Emacs. And probably someone else will come and recommend vim. I won't advocate more than needed, it is just awesome ;)
When I'm not in Xcode, my preferred editor is Komodo Edit (with the optional Vim bindings turned on). It's the editor portion of their IDE and is free.
I have switched to macvim + peepopen.
I haven't really seen an editor that has all the shortcut, macro, and bundle features that TextMate offers.