I must disagree with you. I have used TextMate 1 for many years. Lighter weight than Emacs for quick edits and rapid file browsing. My usual use case is working in a shell and using the mate command line alias to quickly view/edit files. BTW, I use IDEs for serious development: I don't open TextMate and stay in it for an hour, rather using it for fast little tasks. I have received huge value for a low price.