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Notepad is a basic text editor and Aptana is an IDE (IDEs are normally massive, no personal use of this one).

Normally people go for a fully featured text editor, with at least syntax highlighting. Macs have a ton of options (Textmate, Kod, Dashcode, etc).

On Windows I use Notepad2 or Opera's edit source. I find Notepad++ awful. This may be of interest to you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_editor .

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Just as a side note, what don't you like about Notepad++?

I'll pipe up here. I've found it gets buggy once you move beyond basic editing. E.g. regular expression search or search/replace. I've run into several other things.

Overall, I'm left with the impression that it's "a mile wide and a foot deep".

I second it getting buggy, particularly for search/replace.

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