Pick either Vim or Emacs and you'll cover 99.99999% of any possible raw text editing scenarios you can think of. Here's some F# highlighting for vim: http://ww

Pick either Vim or Emacs and you'll cover 99.99999% of any possible raw text editing scenarios you can think of. Here's some F# highlighting for vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2162 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2162 Jedit is ok, but I found it quite slow compared to vim. My own personal favourite is vim (as you can probably tell) but Emacs has some interesting extras that make it worthwhile learning too (such as org-mode).