Alternative for Notepad++?

I really love Notepad++ and I haven't found an alternative for it yet. TextMate and TextWrangler aren't quite there yet. Specifically, two things that I want that are not in TextMate:

• variable highlighting
• bracket highlighting

Can you suggest an alternative editor for OS X?

I've recently started using Atom - it's modern, lightweight, and does a metric buttload of different things.

It's not clear from your question what exactly you're missing -- I use Notepad++ on the PC and find both TextMate and TextWrangler to be reasonable replacements -- but you'll likely appreciate either TextWrangler's big brother BBEdit 9 or, if you can put up with its alpha nature, Sublime Text 2.