[davorb]

> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...

For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.

[jokoon]

Running a regex each time you type a character seems a little heavy to me...

Regex'ing languages like HTML or C++ can be quite mind breaking... I think.