Terminal-based text editor with color syntax hilighting

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Monday 31 March 2003 19:39, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I often write Python over a terminal session, and I really enjoy working
> with color syntax hilighting, so my editor of choise for the past year or
> so has been Jed. I've heard that it's possible to get color hilighting to
> work with Emacs, but so far I've been unable to get that working. (Note:
> I'm talking about an SSH session, not an XTerm. Text only.)
>
> I think Jed is a nice editor, and it's very fast, but I'm wondering if
> there are any other editors that support this feature. Does anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

new gnu emacs (around 8 months old I think) and vim (a super vi clone) both 
support color coding.