On win32, I use gedi.pl, which is an editor I wrote using Perl/Tk. The script is somewhere in the Tk distribution, and it was rolled into the widget demo (just type 'widget' at your prompt).
It is intended to be a functional copy of unix textedit. plus I added some simple paren, square bracket, curly bracket, and quote highlighting. It comes with the latest ActiveState perl distribution. And when I bought the perl compiler, I turned it into an executable, so I don't have the DOS window show up when I edit some file. I was a little dissappointed to find that ActiveState pulled out the column based copy/cut/paste and the "insert/remove string at start of selected lines" bindings, but oh well. Greg
