If you at least once tried to code by your own you know how extremely important a good and reliable text editor is. The ease and comfort of your work commonly depends on it. The majority of you would assume that the best text editor is Notepad, if not the best than the easiest one. But Notepad isn’t a simplest solution. It lacks such useful features like a tabbed interface and search and replace functionality for instance. Many programmers and developers agree that the choice of a text editor is a matter of habit. Well if you still do not have a favorite text editor or are not satisfied with the one you’ve got, I’ve picked the most reliable text editors for you. Who knows, maybe you’ll find the most convenient tool to work with among them. I tried to include the most popular tools not only for work on Windows but also Mac and Linux as well. You’ll also appreciate that all these tools are free. Thus, here they are:

* Notepad ++
A good and very popular tool for work with Windows. Among the most useful features of Notepad ++ I can name an auto-completion feature, tabbed interface, code folding, side by side text comparison, zooming in and zooming out and many more.

* Text Wrangler
A great multi-purpose text editor for Mac. The features include built-in FTP controls, support of useful BBEdit plug-ins and function browser.

* Komodo Edit
Deservedly named one of the best XML editors, this tool supports all operating systems, thus works great on windows, mac, and linux. Has many useful features including code completion and call tips. Supports such template styles like CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Python, XML, Perl, Tcl, HTML-Smarty, RHTML, Template-Toolkit and Django.

* Smultron
A very easy to use text editor for work with Mac. The main feature that makes it so easy to work with is the plain and simple interface. Except the basic features the tool has an obility to split thus allowing you to view files side-by-side, besides you’ll appreciate the code snipplet library that allows storing your most used code blocks. But the most of you most likely will be thrilled by its full-screen mode.

* Gedit
This one is created to work with Linux, actually it’s the official text editor of the GNOME desktop. Among the features are tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, spell-checking feature and a plugin system that allows to add new features.

* Bluefish
This open source editor is quite popular among programmers and web designers that work on Mac and Linux. The main thing it’s famous for is its speedy function.

* Vim
Great tool that runs in all the major platforms, that is: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. There is a great number of features which makes it a bit complicated to work with it.

* NoteTab Light
This is another text editor that works with Windows, Mac and Linux. It is a free Notepad replacement. You’ll appreciate its built-in FTP client, tabbed interface and a reliable search interface.

Well, what is you favorite text editor?