Best editor

Best linux text editor for making programs?

>>12
Edit two small files, get a mess of 12 buffers. And you don't need tabs, because it's so easy for us, nerds, to type C-x-b name-of-the-buffer to switch between the two buffers (among the other 10 garbage buffers).
Anyway that default (and totally not annoying) behavior is easily overrided once you've mastered Emacs Lisp! Provided, of course, you don't update, or all you seettings and dirty hacks would be broken every 6 months.
Emacs = old and buggy framework to write yourself an editor (in a shitty language).

>>13
I have no trouble with letting XMonad being my tab manager (if you don't like it, you can use awesome, dwm, wmii etc etc). Also there are at least two implementations of tabs that work on recent versions of GNU Emacs.  I have tried one of them, but then removed it because it was superfluous.

get a mess of 12 buffers
IDO existed for ages, and I can switch between buffers in a fraction of a second by typing a unique part of their name.  This is a non-problem for me, and never was, in 6 years or so of using Emacs for most of my programming (both personal and at work).  My colleague, also a emacser, has hundreds of buffers (he works on a much larger project with hundreds of files).  He has no more trouble navigating between them than I do.