PSPad

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I don’t know how I’d cope without this one! PSPad really is the Swiss Army Knife of text editors. I use it for everything from taking simple notes, to building entire web sites (and previewing them).

It has a terrific search facility, both within the file being editied, and for entire directories. It has block editing (wonderful for removing chunks of text after importing from various sources). It has spell checking, in a number of different languages. It has code colouring for almost every language (including many I’ve never even heard of!)

In short, if you ever work with plain text files, including coding, you’ll love this editor.

 
Editing an html file

 
That same html in preview mode - note you can set different resolutions to view it in

 
The Search/Replace in Files dialog