It’s rare that I pay for a text editor. Emacs/Vim have been my steady workhorse editors for the last decade. They are pretty darn good but they’ve been locked into their text editing paradigm. Vim is not an editor for a newbie. Neither is emacs though it probably has a lower barrier to entry. Learn to use them well and you’ll be wielding your keyboard like a jedi master wields his light saber. But like I said, it’s rare that I pay for a text editor. But I did. Check it out, it’s called Textmate. It’s new. It’s raw. But it has some incredibly nice ideas that made my jaw drop. It worked really well for writing ruby code which is what I spent the weekend doing. I wish Emacs/Vim implemented snippets (that is the best idea for a text editor I’ve seen in awhile). Pithy about its lack of customization options and foreign (to me) key bindings…