I’m all in favor of TextMate. It’s support for syntax highlighting in the face of multi-language documents (HTML embedded in Javascript, embedded in HTML, along with CSS, etc.) is outstanding, and the fact that doing your own language modules is very possible (without launching a C compiler) got me to switch over from BBEdit.
http://macromates.com/
Also, it’s chaper than BBEdit (though more expensive than TextWrangler, aka BBEdit lite.)
BBEdit supports syntax highlighting for a wide variety of popular computer languages. It also contains powerful multi-file text searching capabilities including strong support for Perl-compatible regular expressions. BBEdit allows the easy previewing and debugging of HTML and Perl and provides built-in prototypes for most HTML constructs. It also includes FTP and SFTP tools and integrates with code management systems. BBEdit shows differences between file versions and allows for the merging of changes.
BBEdit’s tagline, a registered trademark, is “It doesn’t suck.”
LyX + Equation Editor: for documents (because I actually like TeX, and you should to, if you write stuff with equations in it)
Komodo: for Python development
R: for R development (best data language I’ve run into so far)
Acquamacs: for everything else. Yes, it sucks. It has a memory leak in it, and emacs only makes vague sense if you worked with a Lisp machine at MIT in the 80s, but, well, it’s better than the other shite editors.
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