Mac Emacs

There's a pre-compiled Carbon Emacs at http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/ though it is a bit out of date. I find it perfectly usable. Otherwise, I use Smultron (single-window, open files displayed as a list in a sidebar): http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ In the terminal for quick edits, I use vim.

Nothing matches the speed and power of vi, except vi clones. :) I use vim on OS X, as it ships with the system.

TextMate. I've used a bunch of different text editors, on a bunch of different platforms, and I can't think of any I like more than TextMate.

Tex-Edit (http://www.tex-edit.com/). Fell in love with its OS9 version . . . luckily it's available for OSX as well.

I started using textmate for rails projects, and now find myself using it for all editing. textwrangler, subetha, and bbedit, have gone by the wayside fast. Now looking for text mate to support bonjour, svn, and sftp, and it will be my editor for a long time. When ssh'd I use vi or pico. Never heard of nano; I'll have to try it out.

Developing C or R, I use Emacs Developing ObjC, I use Xcode Developing on a remote server, Textwrangler hands down. The SFTP handling is hands down the best I've ever used. Emacs' "tramp" package could learn a thing or two.

Jay: Aquamacs doesn't show the Mac file selector when you open (err, "visit") a file with C-x C-f. But it does show the file selector when you use the Mac combination Apple-O. I find myself using C-x C-f all the time (for the reason that you state), however, I think the Mac file open dialog is perfectly well usable with the keyboard - it's probably even better than the minibuffer when it comes to selecting files. However, one has to learn all those shortcuts. By the way... I heard that Aquamacs will support WYSIWYG printing via the Mac printing system soon :-)

Must... use... BBEdit... forever... but I am leaning with SubEthaEdit for the bonjour editing capabilities for us Web Designers; since we won't ever use a WYSIWYG editor. If all else fails, I use terminal.

I use Bluefish on my PowerBook: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ I use nano when I'm sshed into a server: http://www.nano-editor.org/

I do my LaTeX with Aquamacs these days. The free TeXShop is also v. good for that, but I am getting keener & keener on Emacs. It handles TeX so well. Textmate is getting the TeX-wise, but needs more dedicated support.