I personally work with code all the time. Whether it be html, php, or any of their related file types, anyone who finds themselves working with things of this nature has a best friend named notepad. The problem with notepad is that it really hasn’t had anything added, well, ever. I would recommend anyone wanting to check out a great replacement for notepad check out notepad++ found at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net. This introduces easy to use tabs, which for someone working with more than one document is truly the best addition a notepad like program ever saw. Couple this with a feature which automatically detects the file type, and then provides sections of interest you can click from the function list to immediately jump to different sections of your document, and you have the best notepad program I have ever used, ever.

Excerpt from http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net:

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it’s a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll implement it.

You’re encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.