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Like others have said, Coda's a treat to use. As a professional web developer, I can say Coda is easily worth the money. The preview and CSS editors are throwaway features, but nice to have anyways.

For the developer on a budget, check out skEdit instead. Has a lot of the same features, but in a less pretty package.

I've never liked TextMate... I find it too generic for the type of work I do.

I use Coda every single day. It's a gorgeous app and it's made by an extremely responsive company. That said, it's just missing quite a lot of features for that $79 price tag.

1. No dedicated (live) preview window. Sure CSS Edit has spoiled me, but this is a great feature and I'd like to be able to see what I'm working on. Coda simply isn't built for dual monitors.

2. No site-wide find and replace. You can only search and replace items on your opened document.

3. The DOM inspector is pretty useless. Highlighting your code doesn't highlight the element in preview, nor does selecting in the DOM inspector highlight your code.

Coda is good but it could be much, much better.

I just bought it, but I'm still wishig for this:

1.) Faster and automatic refresh in the Preview window (already said)

2.) Remembering opened windows and their settings when you quit/reopen the app.

3.) Sported mouse-wheel support for rolling/editing values like in CSS Edit.

4.) Added the same Preview/Code Switch button in the lower left corner of the window, in the Edit window, as there is in Preview window.

5.) Speed!!! Try to achieve same speed as CSS Edit.

skEdit is the best value on the market today in terms of text editors. I love how it's simple and unintrusive, but powerful. skEdit 4.0 improves on an already successful formula, and at $35 it's a steal.

The only editor that compares is Coda, IMO. Coda's a bit more polished and complete, but more than twice the price. For that reason, skEdit is still my mainstay. I recommend it to any web developer.