I've stopped using Textmate a few days ago and switched to Sublime Text 2. Same overal philosophy, only incredibly cooler (and actively developed).

any sftp/ftp support in there?? svn, git, mercurial support? any kind of stuff that IDE has at all????

This app is dead....

Killer, killer, killer application. Incomparably better than alternatives on any platform in my opinion. I used to think BBEdit was very powerful. TextMate goes much further, with a great interface. Excellent stuff.

Developer's best friend.

There are about 3 applications (IMO) worth switching to a Mac to be able to use. Scrivener, Things (or OmniFocus depending on your needs), and TextMate.

re: zgoda

SlickEdit 2008 for Mac OS X runs as an X11 application. Duh!

Kate runs on KDE, and jEdit is "powered" by Java.

These are very obscure candidates for competitors of an editor that runs fully native on Mac, with great features and extendability. I'd rather prefer Emacs or Vim to the ones you describe as "better than TM".. :)

Nice editor, but not a killer. Personally I've seen some much better, like SlickEdit (although SlickEdit is far more expensive), some just better (old Kate, jEdit) and some as good as TM in some aspects (PIDA, gEdit, new Kate). The lack of real competitors makes TM shining on OSX, not its real abilities (which are comparable to others).

the best editor E V E R. must have!

I saw it in other places, but basically: If you like Emacs, you'll like TextMate. If you prefer vim, look at BBEdit. The chording, associations and methods are very emacs-ish.

Personally, TextMate is closed only long enough to pull the most recent code from svn.