Open Source

I'll have to keep that in mind

Crimson Editor is my favorite

Similar to UltraEdit but free

i am currently using gedit. i changed the colours to not be like notepad, but to be white on black. gedit has the mouse based attitude of notepad, but the syntax highlighting of any real editor. i prefer it to bluefish now too, because i am sick of bluefish helpfully putting in the closing tags, for some reason i usually put in the closing tags firt in html, and then i have to delete the duplicate ones that bluefish creates when i do the opening tag.
also, since i use XFce i have to admit that mousepad is a good GUI one, similar to notepad basically, no bells and whistles at all.

i'll still use vi (or whatever /usr/bin/vi points to) if i don't have a gui though, or if i am working in an xterm.

vim is always best

I use Vi since it is universal and comes with OS. plus there are lot of shortcuts for this editor which make it a fast one.

vi is the best and thats what i use

I use vim all day, pretty much. I do a lot of work on Linux machines, and I usually connect via ssh. I like it and it does its job and is powerful. But it's not perfect by any means.

I think the whole vi vs. emacs thing is simply a matter of which one you learned first, or which one someone you respect (or learned from) used.

However, for local work, I prefer gedit. It is incredibly full-featured. Of course, I'm lucky enough to work on a Linux desktop at work. Back when I used to use Windows, I preferred TextPad (textpad.com). It's not free, but well worth the money, and you can hack together your own syntax files to customize syntax highlighting. I even made my own file for syntax highlighting for IBM's Net.Data server-side macro language (not related to .Net in any way).

ShawnMilo