nano supports syntax highlighting, IIRC. Not sure if pico does. If you're a fan of Motif you could even used Nedit.

Yeah, but claiming that zero syntax highlighting automatically implies Notepad is pretty ridiculous.

Does vi support it, though? I know vim does.

vi and emacs certainly support syntax highlighting. Nano does as well.

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.