But I can't afford not buy a Mac just to use an editor. ;-) (and I don't wanna dependent on a special OS either)

This screencast of TM and HTML-Coding is impressive http://macromates.com/screencast/insert_html_tags.mov but AFAIK yasnippet.el allows to import TM -Snippets into emacs.

Maybe you wanna try it out, and tell us more about it. 8-)

If you think it's OT in perlmonks you may wanna join http://groups.google.com/group/emacs-perl-intersection?pli=1

Concerning elisp - (I'm a beginner too ;-) there are projects to use perl-scripting from within emacs communicating with a long-running perl-process (Sepia, PDE,EPL), but I think the overhead of just forking a single perl-process every time from LISP is not big enough to motivate people to use them :(

Maybe it could be possible to mimic the TM User Interface in Emacs just by translating every "apple-key" binding to the "windows-key" ?