Simple, tabbed text editor/notepad?

Apple's developer tools ($free) come with source code for a pretty good text editor. It wouldn't be too hard for someone with some programming experience to add tabs and search-across-tabs. I'd do it myself, but I don't forsee having any free time until April. If you haven't found a suitable editor by then, re-post this article and I'll write the editor for you (and add the feature that I want: open and save via scp).

In the cheapware category, try Voodoo Pad from http://flyingmeat.com.

jEdit -- there's a lightweight plug-in for tabbed buffers. Pretty good if you don't mind a Java swing app. And an open-source app to boot.

Phew. You got platform wars, you got religious wars, you got Kate Beckinsale vs. Kiera Knightley pillow-fights (well, in my head you do), but *nothing* quite divides computer users like the text editor question. TextPad does what you want. But, sadly, it's just Windows.

I'm a big fan of XPAD, a lot like tabs but its a drawer with lots of text.

Does running something like NEdit via an X-Server slow you down any? Compared to something like JEdit which is faster, NEdit or Jedit. I don't think TextWrangler is an option b/c Barb said no tabs on the left.

I'll second Rick's vote for TextMate. It's really not that expensive, and is amazing to use. It's not bloated like BBEdit and other software (and TextWrangler looks like a nightmare to use - I tried once). And yet it has all the features I could want, without the kitchen sink to weigh it down. For a web designer, it's the ultimate tool.

In the not-too-expensive side, I'd highly suggest TextMate which I've now been using for a while.. The developer is very in tune with doing changes & upgrades, and the userbase seems very knowledgeable..

Echoing other comments: TextWrangler. There's really no comparison between it and other free text editors. Technically, it's not "tabbed" -- documents are listed in a drawer on the left -- but I've come to much prefer this layout for working with multiple text documents. I literally do all of my writing with BBEdit/TextWrangler and the document drawer acts as a sort of "to do list."

I second the TextWrangler suggestion, and that's why I picked here: http://www.tuaw.com/entry/1234000013030337/ :)