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...

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The point is the current direction of IDEs is intolerable and disgusting. They support activities we rarely do at the click of a button but ignore activities we commonly do (typing). At least things like emacs and vim focus on the lowest level so we can at least get by. Oh and don't get started about auto-complete because it exists in both emacs and vim and everyone's favorite IDEs.