On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:53:05AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: | emacs is a text editor (or "editor" as you call it). | It has syntax highlighting (as does vim) but you can | only see the highlighting in X windows. Highlighting | applies to the file as you see it in the emacs display, | not as it is printed. (Is there syntax highlighting for | text mode emacs, using console text attributes like bold, | highlight, reversevideo, underline? --Dunno) It is meant | to help you edit the file - eg, you can see right away if | you forgot to close a quote, because all the text after | the open-quote is coloured like a string (as opposed to | code).
FYI, vim does colorized syntax highlighting in consoles. Due to limitations in console color the gui versions look better (ex, html/xml comments look the same color as tags in console). If the console lacks color (all consoles according to solaris'termcap) then the highlighting is restricted to bold and underline, etc. I expect that emacs can do the same, but I don't use emacs. -D
