UltraEdit is a great editor but, as you said, it's Windows only. You can use the ftp save as but that is still not that great.

I prefer vi since it is just about on every Unix box that I've ever used and, once you get used to it, navigation and feature use is only a couple of keystokes away. A couple of features that are very handy are bookmarks, copy and paste buffers, launching a program and automatically reading its output into your text, lauching a program using your text as input. These will become second nature and you'll get going pretty fast. I kind of wish UltraEdit could switch on a vi mode once in awhile.

Thomas

Started with vi, but quickly migrated to emacs. I just find it more powerful and easier to use, especially through an X window.

Sorry if I voted twice (feeble memory ), but I use Nedit since it's a feature rich, plain text editor. It runs on nearly every platform, has good mouse support, syntax highlighting, search and replace, runs or gets the result of CLI commands, recent document list,..
Give it a go, if you have not done so recently.

< poop! page 2. I need more coffee. subtract 1 vote from nedit results >

The software will not allow you to vote twice. Try it and see. When you posted your first post, there was no nedit option. After praze also indicated a preference for nedit, I added the nedit option as I mention in a post on page 2. nedit has received two votes one from you and one from praze.

Some one said " Emacs is an operating system but unix has more features ".

I dont need an OS within an OS and I need a nice editor.
So my chice is vi

emacs is a geat text editor because you can , at the same time :
- edit a source file
- play tetris
- check your mails
- surf on the web
- have a shell session

and so more...

Though I ( like most of us), give merits to emacs, I prefer vi