SubEthaEdit 3.5.4 is Out
This morning I decided to check and see if SubEthaEdit had been updated and sure enough, 3.5.4 was out with what appears to be just a single change: Mac OS X Lion fixes. Shucks. There were a few things that I had hoped they'd put into a new release, but I have to face facts: it's exactly what they want it to be. No big changes planned. I'm going to have to accept that this is "it".
I'm not really shocked. It is a great editor. It's just not going to beat BBEdit and MacVim. It has "jump scrolling", and that's too abrupt for me. It's method locator is nice, but it's not as nice as BBEdit's. It's find uses the nice Safari-style "jump balloon", but BBEdit is close and Vim isn't bad for a cross-platform tool.
I read an article recently where someone went through all this on the Mac and said (basically): "No free lunch. BBEdit, MacVim, Emacs - learn one." I laughed a lot at the article, and myself, because he's right on the money. If you want a really powerful editor then these are your choices. Live with it. I guess I was hoping for the SubEthaEdit upstart, but that's not going to happen. It is what it is, and they are happy with it. Great. Back to BBEdit and MacVim.