The point that parent is trying to make is, emacs and vim are free. emacs and vim are each much much more advanced editors than textmate. I tend to agree. Al

The point that parent is trying to make is, emacs and vim are free. emacs and vim are each much much more advanced editors than textmate. I tend to agree. Also, the textmate 2 debacle shows the inherent weakness in basing a large part of your productivity on closed source software. What if textmate 2 never came out? What if textmate didn't work on OSX 10.9, or what if in 5 years OSX is no longer a reasonable platform to develop on at all? I know that Emacs will be compiled wherever I land, and that all my extensions and configuration will go with me. It's foolish to lock yourself in to a specific vendor for something as important as an editor (if you are a programmer). Feel free to be foolish, it's your right, but it is foolish.