Sublime Text is a very popular editor that has been around <ahref='https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/one-point-oh'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>since 2008</a>. There are many options and <ahref='https://packagecontrol.io/'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>extensions</a> available, and a lot of <ahref='http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=sublime+text'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>help available</a> online to help <ahref='http://www.websightdesigns.com/wiki/Setting_up_Sublime_Text_3'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>set it up</a>. (The license for continued use costs $80(personal use)\. However, Sublime Text is free to download and evaluate, with a nag-screen pop-up.)
Brackets is a relatively new open-source editor by Adobe. It is very user friendly, especially for people who aren't used to command-line interfaces or JSON-style settings/prefereces. Extensions and themes are quick and easy to find and install through the Extension Manager.
Atom is an <ahref='https://github.com/atom/atom'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>open source</a> editor, developed by <ahref='https://github.com/'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>GitHub</a>. Like Sublime Text, Atom is quite popular. It is very configurable ("hackable", as they say) but advanced features may be overwhelming to new users. There is also plenty of <ahref='http://readwrite.com/2014/05/20/github-atom-5-tips-getting-started-tutorial-corey-johnson/'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>helpful</a><ahref='http://flight-manual.atom.io/'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>documentation</a><ahref='http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=atom'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>availble</a> online.
Visual Studio Code (a.k.a vsc or vscode) is a very popular, open source editor, developed by <ahref="https://www.microsoft.com"target="_blank"rel="nofollow">Microsoft</a> and fast becoming widely used by developers of all languages. Like Atom and Sublime, Visual Studio Code has a wide range of <ahref="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/VSCode"target="_blank"rel="nofollow">extensions</a> and <ahref="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&category=Themes&sortBy=Downloads"target="_blank"rel="nofollow">themes</a> available to help customise and perfect your experience using it, however VSC is highly configurable "out-the-box". There is also a very active development team behind VSCode, with new features and bug fixes being added by the Visual Studio Code team <ahref="https://code.visualstudio.com/updates"target="_blank"rel="nofollow">every month</a>.
Notepad++ is a free, open source code editor, that runs in the Microsoft Windows Environment. It was developed in 2003, by Dan Ho. It is written in <ahref='www.cplusplus.com'target='_blank'rel='nofollow'>C++</a> (the name comes from that). Notepad++ supports tabbed editing, wich allows working with multiple open files in a single window, and also can be use as a plain text editor.
VIM is an advanced text editor open source tool which is also considered to be an IDE in its way. This tool allows managing your text editing activities with vim editors and UNIX System which can be used on-premise or online. It is written in C. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
