The Windows folks I know all swear by it.

I used to use Notepad++. It is pretty powerful 

Yeah, it's still going, though it's a couple of years removed from an update. I've got Vim and a few others as backups if I have to pull the trigger on a switch.

Wild that people are still using TextMate after all these years. I thought it was dead actually. I used it a loooong time ago. Solid editor. Switched to Vim and never looked back.

kepford

Agreed 100%. TextMate's been my tool of choice recently, but I used VI and later VIM quite a bit. Text should be text.