a good programming text editor (not IDE)

[John Salerno]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> Vim is definitely the best. If you're a GUI man, you can use GVim.

Ok, you guys are slowly converting me, but I do have one question: which 
"version" of VIM should I use, or does it matter? I mean, there seem to 
be at least two versions, a text version and the GUI version you 
mention. Are the options shared between the two, or is it that you are 
more or less "set" in one once you choose it, and if you move to the 
other you have to redefine your preferences, etc.?