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Crimson Editor
Free - Another Text editor out there. Standard advanced features: syntax hilighting, tabs, etc.
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dark room
green on black, full screen (good for old school tech nerds or people who need to concentrate)
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EditPad Lite
Free text editor
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EDXOR
Free - Another super light-weight text editor. Just about as many features as you can possibly cram into 30k.
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Jed
For quick editing or when X11 is not available.
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Jedit
and its trusty plug-in buddy !
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KPad
A simple MDI Rich Text editor
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Lyx
As much as I used emacs with the TeX modules, this just save me pain++.
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metapad
Free - Yet another super light-weight text editor. metapad sells itself as a notepad replacement--and indeed you can replace the notepad executable systemwide with this program--with a number of small but useful features added.
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motepad
uses the font Terminal 6x8, white on black, other features.
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NexPad
Free - Barely any features at all. It's notepad, but with tabs.
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Notepad++
Free / Open Source - Scintilla-based text editor with syntax hilighting and code-folding.
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Notepad2
Free - A simple text editor designed to be a notepad replacement but with a few extra features.
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Nullsoft SafeSex
text editor with blowfish encryption
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SciTe
Free / Open Source - The ORIGINAL Scintilla-based text editor.
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Ted
full featured notepad replacement with unicode.support
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TINN Is Not Notepad
Free / Open Source - Again another super light-weight text editor. Like notepad, but with few extra features (among which tabs and syntax highlighting for many programming languages).
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UML Pad
Free / Open Source - Notepad. But with UML.
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Vim
Free / Open Source - The text editor for manly men. A GUI verison (gVim) is available for those of you scared by the commandline. If gVim is still a bit too scary for you, check out, a set of addon scripts that makes gVim look and work like a regular normal windows text editor, while still preserving all the wonderful power of Vim. Both gVim and Cream have an optional rudimentary tabbed ui.
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WikidPad
Free / Open Source - It's a notepad, but with wiki-style text formatting and interlinking . . and now it's open source! Hooray!
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WinEdt
Shareware (~$30-70, free trial available) - Text editor with strong LaTeX abilities, including code highlighting and integration with MiKTeX for Windows.