What is your favorite text editor, other than SLADE?

[ichxg0]

I'm looking for the best text editor out there; or at least something powerful. I have something called notepad+ which has a nifty find and replace function, but I wish there were more options.. I'm sure it must get deeper than that.. So what is your go to when you have to mangle large amounts of code?

EDIT: for an example:

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music/DKC1/DKCBONUS.spc;Track#;David Wise

I want to duplicate the text "DKCBONUS", replacing "Track#" in this string.. One way is you could have the editor find the end of "DKC1/" and select all the text up to the ".SPC" copy it, and paste it back, either after the *first* semicolon, or by specifying the actual text: "Track#", if that makes any sense.. And I would have it do this for a long list of files like this.

I have other apps that do this for files and folders, but nothing for raw text, seems to me like there *must* be something with this kind of functionality out there though, or how would I got about it?

[Enjay]

Notepad++ is good (especially as it's free).
However, I have used Textpad for many years. I really like how it works, how it handles new lines, tabs and recording macros (very useful when you want to make edits to text files with references to thousands of sprites or something).
General feature-wise, I think it's quite similar to Notepad++. My preference is to do with familiarity as much as anything.

Edit:
Perhaps worth pointing out this thread: viewtopic.php?t=46674
Blue Shadow has made syntax highlighting files for some common GZDoom lumps for both Notepad++ and Textpad. I find them very useful.

[ichxg0]

Edit:
Perhaps worth pointing out this thread: viewtopic.php?t=46674
Blue Shadow has made syntax highlighting files for some common GZDoom lumps for both Notepad++ and Textpad. I find them very useful.

Whaaa, that's awesome. Notepad++ is indeed the best I've found, these should really help though!