Notepad++ is pretty good, I've used it, both for programming and general text editing. See my comment about Metapad in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.c

Notepad++ is pretty good, I've used it, both for programming and general text editing. See my comment about Metapad in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791 It supports both Unix and DOS/Windows line endings (LF and CR+LF). Also a few other options.