[GBH187]

Personally I can't see why you would want to use anything more complex than notepad, admittedly it is rather expensive and comes with a lot of bloat (windows) but it has a stylish black text on white background, search, find&Replace and save features.

For linux users I recommend Nano, I have a Mug that has VI editor command codes printed on it but Nano is just so much easier and lets face it if you know how to use all the commands in VI or Emacs you probably dont need a recomendation on a new editor.

I actually haven't done any coding on my macbook, as I do most of mine via ssh on a linux server using Nano.

I'm sure nano is avaliable for the mac tho.