Hi nakkid,
I've been trying most of the text editors over the past few months. I've just bought
TextPad 4.5. It was the one that I found the most comfortable to use when editing PHP files etc...
It has add-on utilities, clip libraries, dictionaries, macros & syntax definitions, so is very flexible. Loads files very fast too.
UltraEdit was my second choice, but I prefered the look and feel of TextPad personally