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brianto2010

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

Vim

http://www.vim.org

What specifically will you use the text editor for?

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Notepad++ is available only on windows.

There's, of course, emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

It is possible to run Notepad++ under Wine on Linux, but it's not the most stable.

C, C++, Perl, HTML, CSS, Java Script - general purpose Thanks,

If you end up using vim, here's my vimrc file. It's got soft tabs enabled, a color distinction between soft tabs and hard tabs, and keyboard shortcuts for creating and removing comments for various comment styles.

http://dotfiles.org/~tutwabee/.vimrc

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