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I bought TextMate but still mainly use Emacs. However, I'd still pay for an upgrade. TextMate was incredible when I had to write a lot of HTML. A Windows and Linux version would be nice. Emacs runs everywhere and I don't always get to choose my platform. My fingers know what to do in emacs. TextMate everywhere would make retraining more worthwhile.

Finally, I'd pay additional for a Linux version.

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You know that there is E-Texteditor for Windows and supposedly Linux? It is completely compatible with Textmate Bundles… It also adds a few really nice things that Textmate can not do (revision history graph, incremential search…)

Last time I looked at E for linux, it was incredibly tricky to build, if it would even build at all, and was really buggy afterwards. I've moved on, but I think it's still in a similar spot.

Textmate has incremental search. Type Ctrl+S and start typing what you want to search for.

I know. It doesn't work with regular expressions, it doesn't highlight every instance it finds. In short, I find it useless.

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