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I use Kate. It's nice, keys can be fully, painlessly customized, it can be made to support CUA (and does by default) instead of some piss old, completely retarded convention, (by editing config and session files) it can be uncluttered to the point it's like Kwrite with several files (I get rid of all the bullshit toolbars and panes wasting visual space), and it's powerful enough to do the job. Even if I theoretically *could* get pretty-emacs to work like this, it'd take two life expectancies to reach that; if I'm going to use emacs and make it not suck as it horribly does by default, I might as well write my own editor; it's going to be faster and lots of fun.
My issues with it are that it lacks better script integration, and that I have to add scripts to duplicate lines and move lines above and below. I would also like Ctrl+Up/Down to move the cursor as well as the screen.