> how is Notepad not a good editor? - Line endings. It mauls anything not "windows line endings" format - Crappy undo (it will occasionally eat 5 lines of tex

> how is Notepad not a good editor? - Line endings. It mauls anything not "windows line endings" format - Crappy undo (it will occasionally eat 5 lines of text instead of one word) - No redo - Barfs on large files (on a modern machine) If by accident you double click on a 1GB file you better kill it. Please note I did not mention anything which could be argued as "rather belonging in a professional editor". No syntax highlighting, brackets matching, collapsing code / paragraphs, diff'ing 2 documents, tabs, macros, etc etc.