What editors are people using these days?  If I am going to have to learn
    to use a new editor, I'd like to learn on something that works across
    multiple platforms.

I've been using emacs since about 1980 for exactly that reason.


    I used to something called micro-emacs way back in the old days - I'm
    pretty sure that emacs is still around and probably has flavors that work
    in both Windows and Linux.  But I'd like other options.

Now days, full-fledged gnu emacs runs under windows, mac OSX, and any unix
variant.  And there are numerous "small" emacs clones for smaller systems.
One problem area remains MacOS9 and later, where the version of gnu emacs
available doesn't work on systems with more than 128M of memory (or
something like that; less than most modern systems have, anyway :-()

GNU EMACS is fully customizable and programmable using a LISP-like language,
and many of the clones come pretty close in that area...

BillW

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