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Has anyone successfully gotten EE tags to properly highlight in Sublime Text 2? I tried installing the default ExpressionEngine package available from the package installer and it doesn't do anything. I also tried this one https://github.com/mrw/ExpressionEngine2-Sublime-Text-Bundle and it throws errors when I launch it. Any suggestions?
I am running OSX 10.8.2 and Sublime Text 2.0.1 (trial)
I don't know if you're using the Monokai colour scheme, but if you are you'll need to hack it to make the EE tags go purple - just add the word 'constant' on line 96 of ~/Application Supprt/Sublime Text 2/Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme like this:
The end result should look like this:
Edit to add that I'm now using the Spacegray Eighties theme which I prefer a bit. However by default the EE tags will be a very similar orangey red colour to any HTML markup. To improve that and turn the EE tags blue you need to edit line 240 of base16-eighties.dark.tmTheme to change the color of the 'Constants' entry to #6699cc - The end result would then look like this: 
Further edit to add that in ST3, the path to the file you need to change is now ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/Theme - Spacegray/base16-eighties.dark.tmTheme ... Alternatively you can install Package Resource Viewer to get there directly in ST: https://github.com/skuroda/PackageResourceViewer
<string>constant,constant.character, constant.other</string>. Still Not highlighting EE tags properly, with the EE Sublime Text Bundle. Soda-Theme is a good looking theme/skin for sublime text 2.
Jan 14 '13 at 4:39
All of the ExpressionEngine tmbundle's derived from Tim Kelty, including the repo linked to in the question should contain the scope text.html.ee which can be targeted by adding a node inside the theme array:
<dict>
<key>name</key>
<string>Expression Engine</string>
<key>scope</key>
<string>text.html.ee</string>
<key>settings</key>
<dict>
<key>fontStyle</key>
<string />
<key>foreground</key>
<string>#c6b1ed</string>
</dict>
</dict>
Optionally, you can add a background key/pair and/or target specific scopes. Additional scopes are found as string values in https://github.com/mrw/ExpressionEngine2-Sublime-Text-Bundle/blob/master/Syntaxes/ExpressionEngine.tmLanguage
I also find the sublime plugins ColorPicker and ColorSchemeEditor helpful in editing themes.
