free text editor.

malcolm

All the programmers at work are using notepad++ I've installed and have been using it for a bit seems like a good free full featured text editor. Check it out if your interested.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/

MoP

Yup, I've been using it for years, I do all my scripting and text editing in it. Very good, especially considering it's free.
The only thing I don't like is that the Find In Files function is a bit slow, compared to Textpad.

glib

Yep, it's been my only text editor for the last couple years too.

SyncViewS

I'm faithful to PsPad. Notepad++ is based on Scintilla and seems to have a limit on the amount of keywords allowed for syntax highlighting, or perhaps it is only how it has been implemented in this editor. I tried to make a custom highlighter for MaxScript some time ago but couldn't even fit half of the words. PsPad is based on a Delphi component and doesn't show such issue.

vcool

I use PSPad as well.

renderhjs

for quick editing I used:
Metapad > SCITEFlash > SciTE > Notepad++

I notepad++ on all newer computers I installed because it has the most features, but I like editors like metapad for beeing so simplistic and for example making the window opaque or the favourites.
When I had to work a lot with XML files I switched to SciTE because it has a nice code highlighting and script type recognition. For real ECMA coding I use Eclipse or FlashDevelop.