The wonderful thing about gvim/vim/vi is that it has over 150 syntax scripts as listed on the site below.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=syntax&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search According to this command Red Hat's vim-common package comes with 343 syntax files!! !! !! [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax]$ rpm -ql vim-common|grep -c syntax 343 vi always was and always will be _the_ programmer's text editor. Tom The neat thing about it is you can tell it what language you are coding in (a list of about 20,ranging from Ada to XML) and it highlights everything according to the syntax rules for the language. I do most of my perl with it.
