Yeah...abductee is very...ignorant about free/nonfree software etc.
But.
all those IDEs see syntax highlighting and code completion as two seperate features
He got a point.
C::B code completion looks good at the moment, however syntax highlighting is not so good in comparison with VAX.
Thing is, VAX utilizes language parser (same parser that is used for code completion, as far as i understand) for syntax highlighting. This enables it, for example, to highlight function names, variable names and macros in different color. Technically they ALL are identifiers, but since language parser knows the difference, syntax highlighter knows it too. I don't know for sure, but i think that spellchecking in function names (underlines wrong identifiers with red wavy line) works on top of that parser too.
If only my forum-search skills does not fail me, current code completion redesign plan does not have anything to to with syntax highlighting, thus this particular reinventing of a wheel will not be 100% successful, and guys like abductee will continue to whine about Linux/X-platform/FreeSoftware IDEs being dull and ugly. At least i will