Editor recommendations?

Greetings all,

Does anyone have a recommendation for an editor where you can type, and insert stuff, and have it appear a bit like it does when published?

I finally gave up on the WP editor, and am currently struggling with CKEditor. I'm spending way to much time in the html window, only to have it mostly stripped out by the editor.

Surely there's a wysiwyg editor out there somewhere?!? And yes I have investigated different plugins.

Thanks for any advise

Loren