can someone recommend a good text editor

[Taurine]

jEdit is awesome. Its written in Java and has a lot of features for Java programmers but also has good code highlighting and folding for many other languages and markup formats. Best of all it has a plug-in architecture which has received a lot of support.

The most useful plugin I've found is the jdiff plugin. It lets you diff between frames (you can horizontally and vertically split a window into any number of frames and open any number of windows). Because you can edit both frames as you also see the diffs highlighted, its a great way to port or backport your code changes between different code branches.

Being a Java app also means you can use the same editor on all the platforms you run.

[kernow]

That sounds great actually, I might just give it a try, I try to use java apps as much as possible.

jEdit is awesome. Its written in Java and has a lot of features for Java programmers but also has good code highlighting and folding for many other languages and markup formats. Best of all it has a plug-in architecture which has received a lot of support.

The most useful plugin I've found is the jdiff plugin. It lets you diff between frames (you can horizontally and vertically split a window into any number of frames and open any number of windows). Because you can edit both frames as you also see the diffs highlighted, its a great way to port or backport your code changes between different code branches.

Being a Java app also means you can use the same editor on all the platforms you run.