By the way, despite my love of TextMate, I have found one flaw (just today in fact): it doesn’t support proportional fonts. I’ve been reading about several long-term coders who’ve switched to proportional fonts for coding and say they’ll never go back. Wanted to try this out and found TextMate won’t do it. So sad.

I understand that there is a shortcut for the example I used, but not all commands have shortcuts, such as Bundles => Blogging -> Fetch Post, or New From Template -> Blogging -> Blog Post (HTML). So in the former case, I would hit: Alt- Fetch , in the latter case Alt- Blog HTML . For me, on my MacBook where the trackpad is cumbersome, it’s significantly more efficient.

Otherwise I like it a lot, but the interface prevents me from using it as effectively as I use vim. I figure it’s worth mentioning that back in 98, I asked Rich Siegel at BareBones (who produce BBEdit, which I gather you have looked at) if they could give BBEdit a vi-mode (as it has an emacs-mode). He said that they were not, had no intentions to. The reason being that, as you said, the mac interface is very tightly coupled to the mouse interface, and it’s just not really possible to tell your editor, “when I hit escape, that means I’m talking to you.” Or at least not in a way that was sufficient for BareBones.

And you may be interested in the fact that Apple has a “site” license for TM, and it is heartily encouraged within the company.