In the past the only good editor was BB-Edit, not that I personally ever thought of it as a “good” editor.  Then came along TextMate and that redefined the Mac Text Editor.

Before TextMate I was using VIM.  I liked VIM, but I wanted something more Mac like. So when TextMate came out I jumped on it.  I loved it for many years, but the author seemed stuck on his next version —TextMate 2 where are you?— while the current version with its many bugs got stale.

Many other people grew tired of the bugs in TM and wanted something better.  A lot of people moved to MacVIM.  Others started working on new text editors for the Mac.

Here is my list of new Mac Editors (work in progress):

• MacVIM – Its pretty good.
• Kod – Still very early development, but has an interesting platform below it.
• Vico – The newest entry that is like VIM but all new and Mac like.
• Sublime Edit - People are really liking the features of this editor.