[shrikant]

I'm in a similar camp to yours. I've used tonnes of text editors across Windows / Mac / Linux, and Notepad++ was simply the best amongst all of them.

TextMate comes closest on the Mac which is why it's my primary GUI editor, but I still miss being able to do all the stuff that just came "naturally" in Notepad++.

Also, running Notepad++ in Wine just doesn't feel the same.