For editing text without a fuss, TextMate is hands down the best OS X text editor I've run across. I've used everything from vi to Notepad++, jEdit, IntelliJ IDEA, and Eclipse and while they all have their uses, TextMate is by far the best I've found for getting down and dirty with your alphanumerics. Intellij and Eclipse are both phenomenal in their code awareness and code completion abilities, but they lack the polished OS X integration and multitudes of built-in syntax highlighting that TextMate does so well.
Put the icing on the cake with Bundles for TextMate. It'll install and update over 150 kinds of context highlighting for ya. FANTASTIC!
Now, back to learning django!
