I suspect that the "US Only" restriction may have to do with US technology export regulations and/or tax laws in addition to the monumental task of compliance with all give-away laws in all countries. »

I'm one of those non-denominational text editors. Vim has a bit of a learning curve, but with a cheat-sheet posted on my monitor I use it for all cli text editing. In the gui I've used gedit for a while and like it pretty well. Played with kate some, but don't use it very much (for no particular reason). On Macs I use TextWrangler and on Windows I use PSPad. I'm all about the free stuff... »