Since we've already left the rails of the editor wars, here's another cool editor that's not vim/emacs/ed/nano:

https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

TBH, I first struggled to see if this was a mock website.

Film festival laurels galore, the world's best text editor, best results, best support, best usability. I mean, how best can a text editor be?

I have an older version of Ultraedit (probably 10 years old now). I believe in supporting software developers but I will NEVER pay for a yearly subscription of $80/yr for any piece of software unless it's being expensed by my employer. That's way too expensive once you start using it for a couple of years. $20-30/yr like Sublime is more appropriate. I also have purchased Sublime Text will pay for v4 as well.

The nostalgia is great in this one. Back in my Windows webdev days UltraEdit and HeidiSQL were the tools that got 90% of the job done. You didn't even have to rely on PuTTY with UE due to its auto sync features.

Those were simpler days.

Some past threads:

UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019148 - Dec 2010 (45 comments)

UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517745 - July 2010 (31 comments)

UltraEdit for Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937957 - Nov 2009 (15 comments)

UltraEdit was a pure joy to use. back in the windows 3.1 days I could edit files larger than main memory. It was my first encounter with the now ubiquitous tabbed interface. It would hex edit, select rectangular sections, mouse beyond the end of a line, automate with macros. I am sure it did even more that I cannot remember. I should probably go buy a copy just to pay back idm for all the cracked copies that I used back in the 90s.

When did UltraEdit go subscription? :(

I still use it daily. The ability to switch into hex editor mode and back is wonderful! I am about to purchase a Mac version as I expect to migrate to Mac soon and want to buy one before it becomes subscription only.