I use AROS Text Editor on a regular basis to edit c source code. I've always wished that someone would add Syntax Highlighting and fix the annoying text indentation errors!

So this is what I did...

In order to integrate syntax highlighting the editor needs to be able to randomly change pen colors to render the tokens and non-tokens.

In Jed.c in the write_text function that draws the text in the rasterport I changed the foreground text pen color. First I changed it to light blue. But that color is available in prefs. So I changed to bright red just to be sure of the results.

Next I need to add a new function called "write_syntax" that will draw the colored and non-colored text based on token class or non-tokens which don't contain any keywords.

Actually, I might need a Syntax Parser too to isolate the tokens and non-tokens in a text string (syntax highlighting). ;-)