For $dayjob documents generally have to be in Word format, which has been the case for maybe 20 years now. That has effectively forced me to embrace how to accomplish many formatting and layout tasks in Word, leading me to extend my usage of Word into other areas until it ultimately extinguished my use of WordPerfect. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish; all to plan. Fuckers. That said, I still miss the glory days of WordPerfect (5.1 and earlier!) on UNIX and DOS, especially that incredibly useful ability to see and edit formating codes directly - which, IMHO, would make resolving glitching and outright broken Word document templates, namely almost all of those created by corporate users, sooo much easier. I still have some WordPerfect mugs and other tradeshow swag lying around though, so it lives on to some extent.

For straight ASCII/Unicode though, it's either Vim or TextPad, all the way.