Pretty much ever since I began programming, my editor of choice has been Emacs or some variation on it. It can be a daunting task to learn it, but once you do, you know you'll be all set for life, because there will always be an Emacs for you to use on whatever platform you move to. It's been around since the days of TECO, and it'll keep going forever.
The version for Windows called NTEmacs is a wonderful version. Pretty much everything works "out of the box". I haven't bothered to try and use the Cygwin port, because NTEmacs is better integrated with Windows. I've been carrying around my .emacs (the startup file) for years. Heck, I don't even know what half the stuff in there does any more! But I can just copy it to my latest platform (Mac OSX in this case) and I'm good to go. If it can't be done in Emacs, it just isn't worth doing!
Anyway, I stumbled across this great looking Emacs Wiki site. Lots of good info, especially about Major Modes for programming, like php-mode and the like.
EmacsWiki: SiteMap
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