Any suggestions for a better text editor (not vim/emacs) for Ubuntu than the default Gnome editor? It's got three frustrating dealbreakers for me:

1. Can't turn off syntax highlighting, AND the syntax highlighting is so confusing that it leads to me screwing up.

2. No way to get a wordcount for selection block.

3. Autoscroll sucks, placing cursor at the bottom of the screen, with text below cursor always invisible.