cEdit is an advanced and free alternative to both common text editors, and IDE's. It has many of the features found in shareware editors, including extensive language support, function listing, built in FTP, projects, and docking support.
zPad is a possible replacement of Windows Notepad written in VB. Has a nice and minimalistic UI focused on ease and comfort of use. Supports opening and manipulating multiple text documents. Also has clipboard history and notes built in.
Simple, but not simple... This is a simple text editor built of the Star Trek LCARS interface. This program also come with an interesting feature, encryption technology, capable of editing texts and encypting it in a same program, like seen in Star Trek s