need a good text editor for windows

ETC Microsoft Windows
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I am looking to start to code some shell scripts, php, and probably some other web stuff. Free is preferred. I was looking at rocketedit but I would rather just use free open source if possible. On my Mac I love to use TextWrangler, so is there a Windows equivalent?

For Vista/Win7 64bit

thanks

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Must read this: Top 5 Awesome Free Text Editors for Windows

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editplus , ps pad i have used they are good . Check this link for more editors

10 Free And Powerful Windows Text Editors For Web Developers

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I just found out from a guy at work we got licenses to Ultraedit...

Thoughts?

Thanks for those links I will definitely read up on them.

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notepad++

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UltraEdit is all you'll ever need. Hex editor, syntax highlighting, macros, columnar editing...Most stable bundled FTP/sftp client around for almost 10 years that I've been using it. I'm even stuck in the past (using v9.10 or something) and most similar editors just can't touch it for all-around usefulness.