Text Editor is a basic necessity. The simple not so advanced tool could be of the best help for many applications. Some of the best and most customizable and advanced text editors are discussed here. This is just a random list and need not necessarily be in order.

1. Bluefish

Bluefish is one of the most popular and best development text editor available at the time this article is written. This light weight text editor supports development in HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, Javascript, Java, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby and Shell. Released under the GNU GPL license, this open spurce development project could run on most POSIX compatible OS including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD and Solaris.

2. NotePad++

Notepadd++ could be explained as an up gradation of the original Notepad which has almost every possible feature that could be embedded in a text editor. This free source code editor supports many languages like C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Perl and so on. The editor features Auto Completion, Multiview, MultiDocument, Brace and Indent Support, Drag and Drop, Syntax Coloring and many others. The popularity of the editor is evident from the 13million plus downloads till date.

3. UltraEdit

With over 2 million users worldwide is one of the most powerful text editors that is equally versatile and simple to use. It can be used for HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, C, C++, and a large number of other programming languages. The editor could work as a simple basic text editor and hex editor as well.

4. PSPad

PSPad is freeware editor for Windows OS which is simple yet powerful. The editor has various features like an embedded spell checker, syntax highlighting and supports many file types and languages. It is as easy as to install the editor as to use it. The PSPad has an integrated HEX editor, Project Support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace Options, Code Explorer and so on.

5. Vim

Vim is one of the most powerful and popular text editors available. This one is an editor that is highly configurable for efficient text editing and is originally an improved version of the Vi editor found in UNIX systems. The editor could be used for wide variety of applications from programming to simple text editing-when it becomes what is evim or Easy Vim. Vim does not provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents but works excellently with TeX. The modern and powerful version of Vim is Cream, which is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and Free BSD.

6. Notepad 2

A fast and light weight text editor, the Notepad 2 has many excellent features like Syntax highlighting, HTML, XML, PHP, CSS, VBScript, Resource Script, C, C++, Python, Batch Files, Apache Files and many others. It allows drag and drop test editing from within and outside as well. Other features include regular expression search, shortcuts, auto indent, long line marker etc.

7. Komodo Edit

Based on the award winning Komodo IDE, is a powerful, free and open source editor.It features autocomplete and calltips, syntax coloring, syntax checking,Vi emulation and so on.The editor works on any platform whether it be Linux or Mac or Windows.Komodo Edit supports most of the languages like PHP, Ruby, Perl, Html and template languages like RHTML, Django and so on.

8. TextPad

Designed to be able to render high performance, TextPad could edit huge files up to limits of 32 bit virtual memory. It is a basic text editor with support for English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces. Multiple files could be edited simultaneously and a built in spell checker with dictionaries in 10 languages are some of the other additional features. Other options are case shift, block indentation, transposing words and lines etc apart from the normal cut, copy and paste.