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TextMate http://www.macromates.com/

A pretty neat Ruby code editor on OS X is TextMate. Some powerful stuff in there if you lie somewhere between the vi/emacs camp and the notepad/bbedit camp...

If you don't mind switching to OS X (might be a good idea for an ultimate setup anyway), you should try out TextMate. It's a very nice editor, that's extremely extensible and has snippets, macros and commands for almost all mainstream languages.

Have a look at this screencast to see what it can do.

It is payware, but it's a measly EUR 39 and it's worth every eurocent. Plus, it may not be open-source, but it does utilise a lot of open standards.

If you don't mind switching to OS X (might be a good idea for an ultimate setup anyway), you should try out TextMate. It's a very nice editor, that's extremely extensible and has snippets, macros and commands for almost all mainstream languages.

Have a look at this screencast to see what it can do.

It is payware, but it's a measly EUR 39 and it's worth every eurocent. Plus, it may not be open-source, but it does utilise a lot of open standards.

OSX, 100% localhost self sufficient development environment and of course Textmate

For osx the Textmate is cute.

Me to, until I found textmate. Though it's not free.

The Mac editor to watch though is this one.

It's not free, but it's cheap; and it has great features I haven't seen in other Mac editors before.

Not a big surprise, really. With the exception of HTML editing, the crop of newer editors for OS X (TextMate, SEE, Smultron, etc.) were making BBEdit look like that smelly old t-shirt stuck at the bottom of the drawer. You used to love that shirt, but now there are a whole lot of new shirts for you to wear, only without all of the rips and stains.

Since BBEdit is underfeatured and way overpriced for general text editing, Bore Bones had to do something to keep their name recognition alive...

If you work for a reasonable enlightened company [yes, there are a few], they can see that most of the software generated internally has no value as a sales proposition

What if you want to succeed as an independent software vendor? I recently released a text editor for OS X. I wrote it out of love, but I still require people to pay for it, because the amount of work involved in such a project is not just something I can do on sundays.

I really do like the free (as in speech) ideal, but I have a hard time seeing how I can release all the source I have written and still ensure that people will pay me for my (continued) work.

So how does F/OSS apply to startups? it's fine if you can be backed up by a big company, but most likely that company can pay your salery because they have other closed source products.