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...

So basically what I am hearing is you guys don't know how to configure your keyboard (esc in nevernever land).

lol rebind capslock to esc
lol rebind keys to the keys you want to use
lol just because you are incompetent and still incompetent proves nothing other than your continuous incompetentcy