What's a Windows text editor that matches this

Question

My Situation: I love e editor, however I'm on a new computer and my license is being used on my old one. I can't exactly afford another license, so I'm looking for a free editor that meets the follow criteria:

• Decent syntax highlighting
• Ability to view a directory and its contents on the side panel, without the need to create it as a 'project' (Very Important)
• Easily themable (I like dark themes)
• Tabs

Also would be nice:

• S/FTP support
• Code snippets/bundles
• Multi-line editing

And is not (Simply listed because they're common suggestions, but I've tried and not found them to meet my criteria):

• Vim/Emacs
• Notepad++
• Crimson/Emerald Editor
• Programmer's Notepad
• Wordpad/Notepad :P

Thanks. Oh, and as a reference, here's a picture of my current setup: Link

Edit: Thanks all to those who suggested. All 3 (JEdit, Cream, and PsPad) are solid candidates for anyone looking at this thread.

Answer 1

try Komodo edit, its free and can do the things you mentioned afaik.

http://activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml

The sidebar folder feature is called "live folders, and its on the right side bar. It also has vi emulation, dark themes, tabs, sftp support etc..

Answer 2

PsPad. Excellent free text code editor.

Also does FTP site based editing as if it was in a local folder. very handy.

Answer 3

jedit. I believe that it does everything on your wishlist.

Answer 4

You're willing to spend all this time and effort asking about and evaluating other editors which will almost certainly not have all the features you want, yet you can't shell out $35 for another licence?

When I'm making decisions like this, I always value my time at $100/hour so if this were going to take me more than 20 minutes, I'd just buy another licence.

Time is the one commodity you can't recover; you can always make more money...