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The Sublime Text 2 developer is wonderfully responsive. I've emailed suggestions twice and they were both implemented and in short order.

I was disappointed that discussions on the Mac-centric 5by5 podcast network framed BBEdit as the only place to go from TextMate. Granted, BBEdit has a history of not being abandoned, but it's clearly near the end of its evolution while bright new things like Sublime are blazing forward.

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Which Mac-centric 5by5 podcast are you talking about? If it's "The Talk Show" keep in mind that John Gruber used to work for Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBEdit), so take his recommendation with a grain of salt.

I'll repeat myself from other comments here on HN. Sublime Text 2 is amazing and worth every penny of the $59 it costs.

IIRC Hypercritical, Build & Analyze and Back to Work. 5by5 is packed with Mac nerds!

I stopped subscribing to The Talk Show during its original run because John's manner was so lethargic. I like his site but not his podcast.

I agree about the short shrift Sublime Text 2 was given on 5by5. I'd expect that those hosts who are happy with BBEdit or whatever will sing their editor's praises, but it was more annoying that Marco's investigation of TextMate alternatives was effectively to try BBEdit for a few days and then go back to TM1.

Sublime Text 2 is the cat's ass. Oh, how I've longed for multi-file editing in Textmate for so many years...

BBEdit: I keep hoping "the next version" brings it up to speed.

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