What is a good text editor to use instead of notepad or wordpad.

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right section to ask this question. I hope so.

Could anyone recommend a good piece of software (a text editor) to help me manipulate and edit the various drupal files that one edits from time to time.

(These are the various template files and css files etc.)

Basically I am using notepad or wordpad to do this and it is rather awkward and very limited.

I have seen a few drupal tutorials and the tutors seem to be using a more advanced text editor of some kind and moving, editing and copying files around their computers seems a lot easier than notepad or wordpad.

(I don't mind spending a few bucks if it means my tasks will be easier).

Does anyone have any good recommendations of software to use for this kind of work.

Thanks,

Sam