I’ve been using Text­Mate for the last couple of months for all of my pro­gram­ming and blog­ging needs. I have to say, I’m com­pletely in love with the appli­ca­tion. It is by far the smartest and most effi­cient text editor I’ve ever used. I love that it is fast and light­weight. There is noth­ing wasted on use­less fea­tures, just the good stuff.

That said, I’m often stuck on using Win­dows and unfor­tu­nately, Text­Mate is only for Macs. I’ve been search­ing high and low for a good text editor for Win­dows, but have been entirely unsuc­cess­ful. I don’t expect to find some­thing as good as Text­Mate, but there are a few things that I just can’t live with­out. These are my must-​have features:

• A decided ‘lack of features’: I like my text edi­tors fast and with­out the added junk features.
• Sup­port for mul­ti­ple lan­guages: I do mostly web stuff (HTML, CSS, PHP), but sup­port for Perl, blog­ging, Mark­down, and Java, etc. would be nice.
• Code col­or­ing
• Sen­si­ble key­board short­cuts: They can be either built in or customizable.
• Cor­rect tab­bing and auto indent­ing would be nice.
• Detects line breaks appro­pri­ately: The biggest prob­lem that I have on Win­dows machines is that my line breaks never get through. I reg­u­larly write on Mac, Linux, and Win­dows sys­tems, so this is important.

Hope­fully I’m not asking for too much here. Does any­body have any sug­ges­tions. Free soft­ware would be great, but if the editor is worth­while I’ll pay (I spent $50 on Text­Mate after all). I’d prefer open source soft­ware or some­thing made by inde­pen­dent devel­op­ers over a larger Dreamweaver-​like solution.

Does any­body have any suggestions?