Sidegrade from BBEdit to ?

[figgles]

I've seen varied responses to "best text editors" and despite the great
feedback, it is too generalized a question. I am a BBEdit user and love
it. It is the main reason why I continue to run Mac OS X (Yes, OS X has
an excellent GUI, core component integration and ergonomics but is
slowly going the way of Microsoft re licensing and cost of ownership) 



Here's why I love BBEdit:



Persistent Includes

- That's the deal-breaker. I can (and do) use vim/notepad/gedit but
Persistent Includes is the gin in my vermouth



X/HTML support

- keystroke shortcuts for wrapping selected text with tags

- syntax validation

- extensibility

- excellent entity palettes



Integrated, real-time HTML preview

Command-line integration

Great grep integration in its search (Yes, vim is the mother of all
grep'ers, but I go to the manual less frequently in BBEdit)



There's more but that should whittle the discussion down. From afar, I
don't like emacs kitchen-sink approach and vim, while convenient and
fast, seems to require that I live in it for 2 weeks before I approach
the efficiency I enjoy in BBEdit -- and I don't care to write a shell
script to replicate what I have with Persistent Includes (unless, there
is such an vim-centric environment that includes the above specs)
Bluefish seems to be the closest but it has some curious gaps in it.
I'd love to read your opinion on this matter.



Thanks in advance!


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figgles