Its the quickest text editor at starting up that i have tried, even quicker than notepad2
TED Notepad is a chrome-less text editor. There are no toolbars, no sidebars, no fancy-looking gadgets. However, there is a large variety of features, settings and text-processing tools that could bring your typing, text-working or coding to the next level:
Several innovative auto-completions
Advanced and automated clipboarding
Enhanced searching/replacing
Swiss army knife for text processing
Even more features and settings
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/