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Re the search for the greatest programmer's editor. Here's my $0.02 worth:
It's called ED. (original, huh!). It's by a company called Soft As It Gets. 
SAIG's address is:
  3 Pullman Crt,
  East St. Kilda VIC 3183     Phone: +61 3 523 0557
  Australia.                    Fax: +61 3 528 6836 

  The author is Neville Franks. A feature list follows:
  1. Language sensitivity for C/C++/Pascal, xBase, Clipper & Dataflex.
  2. Emulates Brief, Wordstar, Norton's editor and Qedit. There *is* a partial
     vi emulation.
  3. DOS version is available now ($AUS185), Windows 3.x version available
     in about a month or so. An X-windows version is under development.
  4. Code templates for all the above mentioned languages. 
  5. CTAGS functions for C/C++/Pascal and (I think) DataFlex).   
  6. It has a built -in extension language that is a subset of C. Most of the
     editor is written in its own extension language. To define a new editor
     function, you can write a little Ed-C program, compile it, and then either
     run it from within the editor itself, or bind it to a key.
  7. Full source code to all extension language programs is provided. (About a
     megabyte or so).
  8. Keyboard macros - permanent or temporary.
  9. Line/column and stream blocks.
  10. Multiple buffers per window (i.e. cycle through a series of files in one
      window without having multiple windows cluttering up your screen).
  11. If you don't like this, you can have lots of windows, each with its own
      file!
  12. Regular expression search & replace, case in/senstive search, incremental
      search, **search and replace across multiple files**.
  13. Most operations have a history list. For example, when doing a search and
      replace, you can pick the text to search for and replace with, from a list
      rather than typing it again.
  14. Full network support. Each user can have his/her own configuration files.
      and history lists.  
  15. Context-sensitive help for the MS-Windows SDK (in the windows version,
      anyway).
  16. A virtual memory system for editing really BIG files (100 Megs or so).
  17. Ed remembers all windows, files and history lists between sessions.
  18. Lots more. 
      
      I am not affiliated with SAIG in any way. I am a very impressed Ed/Windows      beta tester. Wouldn't be without Ed for DOS. Ever. 

      Demo disks are available. And yes, I like it!

      - Nick.