TextMate Vs. SubEthaEdit

This is turning out to be interesting. There are a lot of things to like about both TextMate and SubEthaEdit. But there are a lot of things to grumble about as well. We’ll see which one takes the crown. I’ve already set my good friend TextWrangler aside for TextMate…
I’m sure SubEthaEdit’s group/network features are nifty and useful to lots of folks but they don’t apeal to me. The app seems to focus too much on that without an option to shift to a “single-user” layout. Speaking of layout, SubEthaEdit certainly needs a lot of work in this department. It has a lot of cool features but finding them is like navigating through a Micro$oft product. Things are buried in different menus and icons are crowded and far from intuitive. However the code completion is the ticket. That’s what is so damned appealing.
That said, TextMate, while lacking in the real code completion department, has a mostly excellent, intuitive, Mac-like layout. Everyone describes it as Mac-like and it is. The negatives are that it does still feel like a new app, and at times seems like its features were cobbled together by free contributions from user-developers. (kind of ironic, considering it is a non-free app)
For the moment, TextMate has my heart. I enjoy using it. I just want CodeSense like XCode has for Objective-C and C, and I want it for PHP, XHTML, XML, Perl, Ruby… hell, for everything!
One more for the road: here is a QuickTime clip of a very cool plugin for SubEthaEdit that lets you open code from Safari, edit in a SubEthaEdit window, save it, and it updates in Safari. Makes for nice Wiki edits…

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