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BBEdit has one feature that I love, that nearly every other text editor in existence fails to get right -- open files are in vertical list, instead of tabs. I hate tabs. I regularly have 25+ files open at a time, basically every file in my project. I can also use swipe gestures on my Macbook to switch files. Tabs I always end up driving nuts.

However BBEdit is not a good code editor at all when compared to a proper IDE.

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I'm sure I've misunderstood you, but don't Sublime Text and TextMate also offer this sidebar thing?

http://www.sublimetext.com/screenshots/cpo.png

http://manual.macromates.com/images/project_window_with_tabs...

It used to be control-s, but now the shortcut for hiding/displaying the sidebar is command-k,command-b (for the latest beta of Sublime Text 2 on OS X)

As your screenshots show, the project hierarchy is in the sidebar, but the open files are still displayed as horizontal tabs. BBEdit lists the open files under the project file list: http://www.barebones.com/images/bbedit/project-window-lg.png

Submime Text shows open files as both tabs AND a vertical list on the sidebar, above the project files.

You can see in his screenshot the single open file being shown above the project files.

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