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...

>>45 That may or may not be true about word, but word is MUCH better suited for writing a book than is Emacs or Vi. In fact, if Word isn't suitable, then using vi would be a joke!

>>55 If you can't "get by" in an IDE, then you have some serious problems. For all of their shortcomings (none of which I see, btw, but concedeing for the sake of argument) they are still vastly superior to *both* emacs and vi.

emacs and vi are cludgy and fucked up; it's time to relegate them to the trash heap of history, where they rightly belong.

I'm just waiting for someone to inevitably say that the best way to word-process is to use latex with vi. Or even better: all true hax0rs write rich text with ed.