As for vim, it's nice when you're in a console, but I don't think it's as pleasant to use.
The delay with TextMate has been rather absurd, though. Version 1 goes largely unmaintained (still no full-screen functionality for Lion). The last update was in November of 2010. Before then it was November of 2009.
You must not have very big projects. TM's find function totally breaks down (spinning beach ball hell) on anything except really small projects.
Fortunately, the solution is AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/ackmate), which integrates seamlessly with TextMate and has a very clean interface; and it's lightning fast.
AckMate is really the only thing I miss in Sublime.
While it is vastly preferable to the default cmd+shift+s (cause it doesn't beachball TM for 30 min), you can only Ack in project when you have a file open, and the result list definitely does not play nice with many of the color schemes available for TM.
Still, a lot better than find in project.
Anyway, Peepopen doesn't actually support Sublime. It needs editor support, which means someone has to write a plugin.
I don't consider my app "really small", or the prior two I worked on using TextMate.
Another problem with TM's built-in "find in project" is that it's not incremental. AckMate will list matches as it finds them, whereas TM will only return results once it's read everything.
Textmate was an inspiring piece of software when it first came out, but it barely runs under Lion (I fired it up to verify that find-in-project was as I remember, and it crashed on the way out), and still has one-character-at-a-time undo/redo which is unbearable.
I may be a programmer, but that doesn't mean I want to learn a new language just to use my text editor.
Also, I happen to like my scroll wheel.
"Also, I happen to like my scroll wheel."
Scrollwheels work great in Vim? I have mine set up to do kinetic scrolling even.. Nice to have over ssh.
Edit: Also yeah, gvim has menus.
Use a modern version of emacs.
> I may be a programmer, but that doesn't mean I want to learn a new language just to use my text editor.
You don't need to program emacs to use it to edit source code and interoperate with revision control and so on. A lot of other emacs hackers have done all that for you, in many cases upwards of 20 years ago.
> Likewise, configuration options are easily discoverable through the Preferences window.
Believe it or not, modern emacs has this. It's accessible the menu at the top of the window (or, in Mac-land, screen), even.
> Other features, like Filter Through Command, are easily discoverable via the menu system.
Again, odd as it may seem, emacs has this as well these days.
> you don't have to go google "Quit Textmate"
And emacs can be quit through the menu. You know, the one at the top of the window or screen. Unless you started it in a terminal window or some other text-only context, in which case you damned well got what you asked for.
As to unmaintained, there are bugfixes occasionally, but yes, no feature changes for quite a while. But that still makes it by far one of the most solid applications I've ever used - everything but my terminal application crashes more often than TextMate.
All that said, ack/grep all the way. Faster, with/without context, and doesn't leave bloat around.
So.. if I'm working with index.html and need it to be index.php, all I need to do is: cmd+ctrl+return, then: mv index.html index.php