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Thanks for your replies. I think I'm going to go with Crimson Editor -- the interface is clean and the code indenting is pretty intuitive. I like jEdit a lot and it offers an excellent mix of power and usability, but I think Crimson Editor may be the best choice for minimizing the barriers to entry for a non-programmer.

Along those lines, I know Vim is powerful but if I'm not mistaken, it (like my own favorite, Emacs) isn't the easiest thing to pick up and use right away. (Of course, that's a ridiculous understatement for Emacs, ha ha.) I also thought about Notepad++ just because of how popular it seems to be, but its menus are a little bewildering and if it has an automatic indenting feature, I couldn't find how to turn it on.

As for Eclipse and Dev-C++, I've heard good things about both of them but I don't use IDEs that much.

Anyway, thanks again for all your input. Any more would be quite welcome.