Normally I defend Sublime Text, but I think this is the ideal use case for Atom/VSCode. It has great defaults and is easy to get started with without plugins.

Normally I defend Sublime Text, but I think this is the ideal use case for Atom/VSCode. It has great defaults and is easy to get started with without plugins. Sublime is still easier than VIM/Emacs for beginners but it does require some effort to get up to full awesomeness.