text editors

What is your favorite? And why?

I do more text editing on my computers than anything else. Years ago I bought a copy of the most powerful and easy-to-use text editor I've ever found: TextPad, from textpad.com

Here are the main reasons I like TextPad:

• GUI-based
  
• uses regular expressions in its search and replace functions
  
• lets you create re-usable macros to automate sequences (they are not embedded in the document)
  
• has syntax highlighting for virtually every type of text file known
  
• you can easily create new syntax highlighting files, as they are just text
  
• and you can just as simply edit old ones to improve them
  
• it has "clip libraries" of commonly used items which can be inserted into the working text by simply double-clicking the item in the clip list (for instance I use it to insert pieces of POVRay code into a scene I'm writing, or html elements into a web page)
  
• you can easily create your own clip libraries, as they are simply text
  
• you can just as simply edit old clip libraries
  
• there is no limit to the size of a clip item, for instance one of my clip libraries contains all the VRML nodes and a lot of commonly used fragments, and one of the clip list items is an entire basic VRML scene, with some simple object nodes, lighting, sound nodes, fog, and so on... all in one of the clip items
  
• almost any aspect of TextPad's operation can be altered to suit

TextPad does have 2 major drawbacks though:

• The macro language is closed and binary only, compiled by the program itself as you do the actions. Much better would be a text-based programming language like python, that can be tweaked and altered easily
  
• TextPad is MSWindows only, and I have almost succeeded in moving entirely to Linux.
  

So, good people. What is your favorite text editor?