TextMate for me on the Mac. After getting over the difference hump  
between BBEdit and TextMate, I now find TextMate much easier to use.  
Considerably cheaper than BBEdit, although more expensive than  
TextWrangler (free), but I like the extensibility and the community- 
driven bundles that can be added on.

-Rob


On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:31 PM, David Todd wrote:

> Ditto.  I also use the programming features of emacs to groom text  
> files, prepare data for CSV format for loading Excel or databases,  
> etc.  It's been my primary editor for about 15-20 years.
>
> David
>
> Kelvin Chu wrote:
>>
>> On MacOSX or unix:
>>
>> vi(m) or (x)emacs
>>
>> Both are now bundled with OSX.  If you want to roll your own  
>> version of xemacs on carbon, look here:
>>
>>     http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-xemacs/Carbon%20XEmacs/Home.html
>>
>> (x)emacs is free, does syntax highlighting, is document-context  
>> aware, etc.
>>
>> -k