Good text/code editor

Hey
What's a good code/text editor? Something like notepad but that highlights html code, strings etc. And I don't want it to choke on big files like notepad does...

>>33
Age for truth. the whole point of an IDE is to have your tools together, in one place, functioning in an automatic manner.

I'm just learning programming, so I don't know what it's like to work with a large project (I'm sure it's different), but for small projects I really like Anjuta. Of course for a large project you're going to want something better than find . -name *c -exec grep foo \{}; (Or is it "-exec (grep foo) \{};"? another argument for autmation -- you don't have to keep track of a bunch of CLI arcana).