SubEthaEdit is Up to v3.2.1
It's been a while since I checked on SubEthaEdit, and this morning I decided to check and see if it's been updated recently. To my surprise, it was up to 3.2.1 - from 3.1 I'd been running for a long time. Turns out there are a ton of changes - and all of them good.
There were a few things that I didn't really like about SubEthaEdit, and the first was the syntax highlighting was slower than I could type. It would look like "normal" text for half a second and then convert to the correct style. Not horrible, but not as fast as BBEdit or MacVim, and those are the two that I use daily. Even the editor in Xcode was faster at the change. Well... with 3.2 (and then 3.2.1) they have improved the syntax highlighting performance significantly.
They have also improved the PHP, Perl, CSS, Javascript, and a few other modes. This is going to be a lot faster. I'm very excited about what they have been doing here. If they only added the ability for me to mark/jump and also navigate by the keyboard and fix the method sorting.
There are a few other things: the scrolling 'jumps' when you get to the bottom of the screen and while this is fine for people that didn't get used to 'vi' or other editors that scrolled one line at a time, it's really distracting for me as I have to refocus on the moved text.
It's getting better, and I'm really happy to support them as they get better, but for now it's not going to supplant BBEdit or MacVim.