OK, so UltraEdit is not that expensive and I have yet to see an unfavorable opinion of it. But Notepad++ works fine for me, and as of today it works even better.
Like most everybody, I indent my code. I use tabs for that. Tabs are convenient, but they are set to different widths for different [...]

Notepad is nice, but you can do better. Notepad++ can highlight your syntax, help you match your parentheses and, coolest of all, fold your code. If you already program in some other language using some graphical IDE, you know what that means. If you don't, here: when you enclose slabs of your Stata do-files inside what Stata [...]