I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him).
I don't do Windows, but there's some days where I have to work with Windows coders, and the one editor that strikes me as the one closest to the TextMate goodness, with Project drawers and all the other things I have come to expect from a good editor, is Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/)
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