Best text editor these days?

When ever I do a full registry backup and then "Edit" with Metapad (text editor), I get this alert ... Metapad 3.6 (not LE) version 304730 Metapad has always been OK for small "reads" of keys, but it has always irritated me when I want to look at the full registry list in REG file. ...

Hey guys, got a fairly simple request. I'm looking for a text editor similar to PSPad, that (1) allows you to open multiple documents (i.e. tabbed), (2) has a ruler, and (3) allows you to word wrap to the ruler. You'd think this was pretty trivial, but surprisingly the several text editors I...

I've recently come over from XP and miss notepad and wordpad. Any simple replacements for Windows 7? Also, I would like a simple, fast mp3 player to set as my default player for mp3 and wave files so I don't have to open iTunes every time I want to listen to a clip. Suggestions? For both of...

I'm looking for a free Windows Text editor, other than XEmacs, that will transpose the last 2 characters typed when I press Control-t. I don't want to swap characters on either side of the cursor. It should be like this: I try to type the work "this" and get a typo and end up with "thsi" with...

Is there a text-editor program(MS Word, Wordpad etc) that can displayed ruled lines, like in your college notebooks or lines that are alternately shaded like iTunes?