I use Visual Studio all day every day as nothing but a text editor (for the most part). It has the best find/replace I've seen in a text editor. jEdit has bet

I use Visual Studio all day every day as nothing but a text editor (for the most part). It has the best find/replace I've seen in a text editor. jEdit has better functionality, such as PCRE find/replace with good backreference support, but it's too complex for day to day use and the rest of the thing sucks. It's also extremely customizable. When you're doing C++ development on a large project and no IDE is really going to cut it in terms of Intellisense and build tools, find/replace becomes a ton more important. shrug