vi and emacs certainly support syntax highlighting. Nano does as well. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19444340/how-to-specify-syntax-highlighting-in-vi-edi

vi and emacs certainly support syntax highlighting. Nano does as well. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19444340/how-to-specify-syntax-highlighting-in-vi-editor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19444340/how-to-specify-s... In fact the only text editors that I know of off the top of my head that do not support syntax highlighting is notepad and pico.