Which Text Editor & Why

[manzoor]

and Why ? Can someone prefer me a good text editor for text, programming and html etc

My friend will be giving out his CC and will buy one for me, So I want to choose the best one

[KowKing]

Notepad.exe for HTML.

Microsoft Word for everything else.

[Bryon]

Notepad2! Nano! Emacs! Why pay when you can get nice programs that do not cost anything?

[deadimp]

Programmer's Notepad for Web stuff, Code::Blocks for C++, JCreator (lite edition) for Java, Poderosa for command line (not really a text editor, just wanted to list it).
Free stuff for me.

[Veivei]

I use ConText

[rackfenix]

Worpad for create .htaccess and Word for homework :D

[manzoor]

w0w no people use any commercial text editors
But in others community they gave me these choices and said they are good

Hmm... Thanks for your comments, I will research a lil bit more.



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[GamingX]

Yep, I believe in opensource softwares and usually use Notepad in Windows and nano in Ubuntu....as Bryon said why use paid software when you can get a better one for free...;)

[maikefutesi]

I voted EditPlus but I like Textpad as well.

In fact, any editor that has syntax highlighting and block-indenting is good (imho). Autocompletion is nice as well, but not a must. (I like Dreamweaver's feature to close the last opened tag when you type </)

I think all those HTML-helper features are overkill, and useless if you already know HTML good.

(P-S: Mac = BBEdit and TextMate all the way)

[alexandgruntz]

MS Word 2007 for most stuff, Notepad for plain text documents.