I use and love Nedit, you can get it from www.nedit.org.

It has some cool features like Emacs does, but coming from a windows background I found Nedit a lot easier to use because the hot-key commands were similar to standard windows utilities like DOS EDIT. But this is a hell of a lot more powerful that DOS EDIT.

Also it has some really easy block highlighting/moving, syntax highlighting, auto indention, and a lot more features. It also has a macro language as does Emacs.