I've had it with IE7

[viper37]

ah, Wordperfect, you piece of crap.

it's still the best word processor out there.

WP 5.1?????

No.  The most recent one.  X5 or X6, can't remember.  Not that I've seen a difference after the upgrade, anyway.
Simpler to use than Word and more powerful.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

If he loves notepad that much he can always use Notepad++.

Pity it doesn't have settings for Erlang coding though. My options on that front are reduced to Emacs (yikes!) or Eclipse.

Sublime Text may suit your needs as well, but in an epic fail of marketing the author does not have a list of recognized languages.