Frankly @Mina, the fact is that I do not know any better text editor.
xed was ok before I laboriously installed **wine ** then TextPad. And I may return to xed just to prove myself that I can ditch whatever I am used to. 
vi or vim are too black for taste. I can’t get over some fear over a black screen. Perhaps it is the fear of the terminal phase !!! 
It took me a long time to switch from the black screen of MS-DOS when I did my first Basic program for some local customer in 1979 to Windows 3.0 at work. But who really wants to go backward to a blank black screen ?
I rather 
than 
I used the free version of TextPad a long time, then I bought it in 2004. I upgraded a couple of times and I still use 4.7.3 version because I do not care paying for new versions that I might not need.
I have also used Arachnophilia for html writing in the past.
Maybe I should explore UltraEdit before I die.
What do you say ?