Atom is a free, open-source and cross-platform text & code editor specially designed for programmers, released by GitHub, written in Electron (CoffeeScript /JavaScript / Less / HTML). It clones all the important features of the most popular code editors in the market at present (especially SublimeText's Goto Anything, Goto Symbol, Goto Line, Command Panel, shortcut keys, and more). Finally, Atom maybe become a new industry darling for developers in various fields.

GetDiz is a freeware released as the Windows built-in Notepad replacement according to the official explanation. But in fact, GetDiz is much more interesting - especially in terms of ASCII art feature, even compared with DAMN NFO Viewer, it is much more flexible and powerful.

Dark Room is a very simple and tiny pure text editor, which is basically a clone of the WriteRoom on Mac OS X and specially designed to let you pay more attention in writing (logs, reports, articles, programs, etc.) with no distractions.

As another excellent one of numerous alternatives of Windows built-in Notepad, EditPad supports almost all the text editing tasks. It has two editions - Lite and Pro, the former is for individual users and free to use, the latter is tailor-made for programmers or other professionals which is commercial.

Concerning the powerful, super cool and perfect functions of Sublime Text, I believe what you know is not less than mine, here we do not introduce its various features any more. I just like to call it the only coolest code editor candystar for programmers.