exactly...

IMO, a user is more abpt to work well and fast with the tools that they're accustomed to, if anything, introducing new tools will cause things to take longer as they have to get used to the new fangled tool/options.

The only thing in notepad/wordpad that can be updated that would be of any use to me would be if they where to add line numbering; everything else i can add myself (html code, php code, hex colors, etc)

pico for me

vi - is too complicated

Well they aren't too good at replacing strings in hundreds of files at the same time like advanced editors.

They also don't do column/block editing that I know of.

You guys can keep your editors and I'll keep mine

I use pico on the server - but Ultraedit on my laptop

Lol I can replace multiple strings wiht both notepad and wordpad ;)... No so much in nano/pico though...

I am not aware of anything for a linux server that acts in a simialr way to notepad - it is left to right scrolling that would be nice.

vi can do a find and replace, but I don't generally use that much, generally i use the locate and edit the line

There are always options

perl -pi -e "s/Find This String/Replace with this String/" *.ext

No doubt there are options for seasoned users but still not quite as easy as clicking a button to do it. You would also need a better regular expression or you would easily wipe out and ruin the other files.
You could also do for each and grep, etc.. just that each time you would spend a while with the syntax unless you did it often, in an advanced editor it takes that guess work out of it.

I'm not trying to persuade anyone to change what or how they do things - just being a post W... like Gizmo - hehe

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Gizmo - I'll send you a copy of EditPad 3.5.3 to try out -- it has line numbering (well, it has "Go to line #)) and a few other nice touches that Notepad doesn't have (like no file size limit), but it's still ultra slim. There isn't even an install - you just run it. No color-coding, though - that's the only thing I miss about it compared to say, Dreamweaver's source view which I use sometimes also. Later versions of EditPad have it, but I've found them to be more bloated for an everyday .txt reader.