This has been out for a while now, but I'm sure it'll be of interest to at least somebody here (
*cough* Bobbias *cough*).
Microsoft released a free, multiplatform editor called Code:
https://code.visualstudio.com/. It sort of reminds me in a lot of ways of a stripped down version of Visual Studio with a liberal dash of
Sublime Text thrown in for good measure.
It's still pretty early in development with some notable features missing (such as extension support), but it's off to a very nice start! It features things like Git integration, syntax highlighting, autocomplete (in some languages), and debugging (in some languages). The fact that it native supports split panels is quite nice, too (though it only supports adding columns, not rows, oddly enough).
If I had to pick one complaint about the default installation, it's the default font. It's too large by default and when you shrink it down it gets too condensed. The first thing I did was throw this into my user preferences:
"editor.fontFamily": "Lucida Console",
"editor.fontSize": 11
I still work with too much classic ASP code (which Code doesn't support but Sublime Text does) to justify switching right now, but I am definitely going to be watching this thing evolve. Should be a fun ride!
Oh, one more interesting thing about Code: it's a node.js application! Every since Nadella stepped up, Microsoft's been surprising me more and more every month. I doubt they would have released something like this in the Gates/Ballmer era (since those days seemed to be all about dogfooding).