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TextMate’s parsing for symbols and code folding is broken. It fails with many slightly-nonstandard brace arrangements, and even fails if there is a tab depth difference between closing and opening tags in XML. In addition, it’s symbol list only works correctly about half the time, although I haven’t spent the time yet to figure out under what cases it is [un]successful.

So far in my BBEdit/TextMate showdown, BBEdit is staying slightly ahead, with its fully-working symbol detection, perfect folding, and generally more powerful menus. While most of the functionality in BBEdit is duplicated in various TextMate bundles, all that functionality is then in one huge menu; not exactly the best interface for an efficient workflow.

Still, TextMate has a superior plugin (bundle) architecture and much more extensive code completion. If they can work out some of these issues, TextMate will pull ahead as my editor of choice. As it stands, I use TextMate for most of my general editing, and BBEdit for serious programming.