[chaboutime]

I've been using jEdit for years now for all non .NET dev which I use Visual Studio due to code insight mainly (who can remember all the library stuff!).

jEdit is great, it works on both Windows and Linux with no visual quirks, you easily make up your own syntax for custom languages, it has a console, a file system and a project viewer plugin.

Also it has subpixel sampling for fonts which keeps my eyes not falling off the sockets after long time hacking. Finally a feature that I have not found in other editors in the custom folding modes (like the region thing in VS) which makes it easy to understand the structure of long files.

The only negative issue that I 've noticed so far is the missing character substitution for foreign languages due to the Java thing. For example if you use a monospace font other than courier new and your code/resources contains multiple languages, english, greek, japanese etc you get squary blocks all over the place. All native Windows and Linux apps do automatic font substitution!