> it's also a much newer problem in as much as syntax-highlighting is much newer feature Just an aside. I wouldn't associate syntax highlighting with new. It's

> it's also a much newer problem in as much as syntax-highlighting is much newer feature Just an aside. I wouldn't associate syntax highlighting with new. It's almost as old as text editors. Accurate syntax highlighting in real-time visual text editors is over 40 years old by now and was becoming common by the late 1980s. GNU Emacs gained syntax highlighting in 1989 and it was considered late to the party. Many programming editors and IDEs had syntax highlighting by then.