>Hi Dmitry,
>
>If you are ONLY requesting a "text-coloring" solution, I alas expect that you will NOT find a decent solution within the VFP world:-(

There's a general concept / template here:
https://www.levelextreme.com/Home/ViewPage?Activator=1021&ID=1666998

It can be re-worked and expanded to suite pretty much any syntax-highlighting purpose, including text selection and even multi-text selection.