What's your favourite text editor?

I recently switched to Sublime Text 2 and don't have any regrets. Parts of the UX are still a little rough, but there's more than enough upside.

Pros:

• It is fast like hare strapped to jet engine.
• It's scriptable (Python).
• Good third-party plugin manager to download those good plugins.
• Customizable code snippets.
• Attractive, theme-able interface.
• Supports all existing TextMate color schemes and languages.
• The included highlight schemes are pretty good. If you like Monokai, you'll be happy. [1]
• Optional project support with pretty good search. Works fine for a decently large codebase even without Ctags.
• Supports multiple carets and some craziness you might expect from Vim and friends.
• Is not Vim and friends.
• Runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
• Gets better all the time.

Cons:

• No theme or highlight scheme editor. You can edit them by hand, but the documentation leaves much to be desired. (Like... documentation.)
• Some key things are not obvious. For example, how do you get rid of the find/replace bar? (Press Esc.)
• The autocomplete problem where the cursor won't jump past interserted parens—but I've literally never seen an editor that handles that sensibly.

tl;dr Go get it right now before they run out.

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[1] If not, check out Upstream Sunburst.
And see also: How can I get the most out of Sublime Text?

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