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Daily driver: nano
Forever mastering : vim
Sexy desktop mistress : Sublime text 3
Sublime Text. I was using TextMate previously and is good, but Sublime is faster.
nano for ocasional edits.
For development? Always go for products by JetBrains. So I think that would be PyCharm for you
Windoze: Notepad++
Linux: Nano
vim with youcompleteme.
Been using Edit Plus since 10 years ago.
On the same time, I tried other editors as well (NotePad++, Atom, etc...) but eventually still go with Edit Plus.
UltraEdit for Windows. It's costly, but has all the features I need to manage EDI processing, HTML editing, and pretty much anything else.
On Linux, it's VI all the way.
Vim & Nano on Linux. Sublime Text on Windows.
Macvim or Sublime text 2-3 or vim on Linux
Love Sublime Text, great $70. Nano whenever I'm doing something via terminal, and pluma whenever I just need to jot something down.
TextEdit
Via the terminal I use nano. I use Sublime Text 3 for most tasks. I did try to switch to Atom but it does not do a good job with very large files. I tried to open up a very large SQL file to do a search and replace and Atom was very slugish and jerky while Sublime handled the task without any issues. I do keep Atom on hand to do certain tasks.
Sublime for coding and notepad++ for everything else.
++ is fast, simple and free.
Tried atom before but it starts up too slow on my old laptop.
SublimeText 3 because of the different packages (plugins)
notepad++
I guess. I thought it was Wordstar bindings, but looking it up now it seems the first emacs release actually predated Wordstar by 2 years. In any case, I would think that any DOS, and hence Windows user, would find those key bindings to feel natural. I know them from early DOS editors which mostly used those.
Brackets Although it's more aimed at web development. If you only want to edit be sure to take the "Without extract" version.
Sublimetext
So many features, so convenient and plainly awesome 
I use kate on kde
nano on linux and notepad++ on windows
I have used so many text editors in the past, it is hard to remember them all. Does a punchcard machine count as a text editor? :-)
On Unix and Linux computers I used emacs for years. These days I am more likely to bring up vi or nano for a quick edit. On Windows I used SlickEdit, but that was a long time ago. After that, I used whatever editor came with the development environment. In production workplaces, tight integration with the change tracking, code management, build, and test is an important aspect of tool selection for developers.
Most often I use the editor that is built into the development environment. I was particularly fond of the editor that was integrated into JetBrains' IntelliJ environment.
These days, for general purpose work, note taking, coding, and more, I use BBEdit on the Mac. It has been my go to text editor for two decades. I miss the days where development environments made it easy to integrate BBEdit into the coding and debugging process, but no more. It is not practical to use BBEdit with Xcode, for example.
After seeing all the posts here, I will have a look at Sublimetext.
I am using Notepad++ text editor because it is very use friendly.
Nano on linux (embarrassing that I've been using linux since the Slackware days in the 90's and I never played around with vim much but I usually only need to make quick config edits) and I use Notepad++ on Windows.
I have tried many text editors and finally settled with Sublime Text. It's very powerful and lightweight (looking at you atom).
On linux variants, I mainly use Nano for smaller edits and vim for other stuff. Atom is a really good and godly powered editor yet it fails to amuse me.
Obviously yes, since so many machines still can't do backspace and delete properly.
Once I learned how to quit it, vim became my editor of choice!
Jokes asides, I like being able to do some work with regexes once in a while, plus it's available virtually anywhere, *nix-wise.
It's also nice to code in:
SublimeText
Notepad++ is the best for my needs. I've been using Sublime in the past but there are some limitations for me.
I use some plugins that only work on Notepad++. Very satisfied with it!
Nano, Geany, Notepad++, Sublime Text
on windows, notepad for quick n dirty, notepad ++ for serious job.
on linux, nano or vi/vim