> I've tried a few others, like TextPad and Crimson, and right now I use > UltraEdit, which I love actually, except for minor issues here and > there. But it'd be nice to make the move, as much as possible, to free, > open-source, cross-platform software.
Vim is great if you have a good memory... Otherwise you end up trawling through the help to find out how to do stuff that would in another IDE be just a few menu clicks away. jEdit is for me still the best text editor available. Very extensible with macros (which can be written in Jython with the appropriate plugin installed). Full mapping of key-bindings to built in commands, plugin commands and macros a-la Vim, emacs etc. Also comes with a range of plugins if you do want that little bit more power... Java based so cross platform. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
