Since I moved to using Macs about 4 or 5 years back I’ve been irritated by the lack of decent text editors, even the one that comes with the OS isn’t as good as Microsoft’s ultra-simple Notepad (I hated bbedit/textwrangler, seriously, $99 for the full version!?). On Windows there’s plenty and they’re all free (i use TextPad, fast and simple to customise, and ended up paying for a license because it’s toally worth it), on the Mac there’s a couple and you have to pay for them. (despite it’s free love and let’s all be creative image I’ve discovered the Mac is all about shiny happy capitalism). Anyway, recently I’ve discovered
TextMate and it’s great. It’s annoying you have to pay for it but for a change it’s actually worth it.