Looking for a good Text Editor

nnbnbI'm currently using Programmers File Editor 32-bit www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.htm as my stand alone raw text editor which is ok and has some usefull abilities (especially for a freebie) but I am wondering what other such utilities are out there which may better.

What text editors are you guys using and what sort of features do they have that you like?

EditPlus ( www.editplus.com )

I absolutely love and use Notepad++ which is free.
It has the following features:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
Dynamic position of Views
File Status Auto-detection
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback

It also has keyword/auto-completion support for most of the popular languages out of the box, but you can also define yours as well, which I have had to do as I use a little used language for a lot of my work. I have also heard good things about PsPad which is also free.

I love vim !

I especially appreciate the following features:

- Syntax highlighting for all popular programming/scripting/markup languages
- Keybinding capability, allowing to bind any function to any key combination
- Have multiple files open in tabs, or in split-view
- Spell-checking
- Powerful undo features, you can undo changes based on the time they were made or in the traditional step-based approach.
- Scripting support. It allows to automate any kind of editing you make in one file, so that it can be automatically done on others files.
- Supports multiple character encodings
- Diff mode, allowing to view the differences between similar files in a customized way
- Powerful searching and replacing features, with full regexp support.
- Fast and reliable. I have yet to find a text editor that opens a 200MB SQL dump so fast and without complaining. It can even open compressed text files on the fly.

PSpad rocks. www.pspad.com

I'm adding a ++ for Vim. Can't live without it...

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