Which isn't to say that there can't be a Real Editor that's also Extremely Mouse Friendly that I just haven't run into yet... (not that I'm particularly looking for one, being so accustomed to 'vi').
Actually, OS/2 had an "Extended Editor" which was more or less a port of IBM XEDIT to a GUI environment, with modern enhancements (such as regexps). You could use it as a gui, or script it in REXX. Of course, XEDIT was itself rather a lot like an IBM-ified Emacs.
Textpad (www.textpad.com) is a pretty friendly Windows editor which can do regexps and syntax highlighting and is mouse friendly. It's Shareware rather than Donation Ware (like Vim), which may be a problem depending on your philosophical stance on that issue.
It does have one advantage over gvim on a Windows box which is that, if you set it up as the default text editor on a machine used by more than one person, you don't have all the other users cursing your name.
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gvim :) (Well, at least it tries.)
Actually, OS/2 had an "Extended Editor" which was more or less a port of IBM XEDIT to a GUI environment, with modern enhancements (such as regexps). You could use it as a gui, or script it in REXX. Of course, XEDIT was itself rather a lot like an IBM-ified Emacs.
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Textpad
It does have one advantage over gvim on a Windows box which is that, if you set it up as the default text editor on a machine used by more than one person, you don't have all the other users cursing your name.