I used jEdit years ago as my editor of choice for pretty much any OS i used and it was very flexible with a lot of extensions (most likely still is). I remember

I used jEdit years ago as my editor of choice for pretty much any OS i used and it was very flexible with a lot of extensions (most likely still is). I remember a friend of mine saying something along the lines of "it isn't a true editor until you can read email off it" (which i guess was his paraphrasing of JWZ's "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail" though i didn't knew it at the time) as an attempt to tell me how Emacs was better, but, sure enough, i quickly found an email plugin for jEdit :-P. Though i never used that one, i did use the IRC client plugin a bit.