Excerpted from message dated 02-06-96, Mike Bilow to Phil Crown
(original subject - "Watcom C++ ??"):

MB>I think it is available for the 32-bit test version, the EPM 6.x
  >series.  Watcom ships the latest released version, EPM 5.x, which
  >is 16-bit.  Color syntax highlighting is about the only thing EPM
  >lacks that I would really like.


Mike--

    Try LPEX (Live Parsing Editor) from IBM.  It is a 32-bit editor for
OS/2 that does color syntax highlighting for a number of languages
(including PL/I, C, JCL, RC, and REXX) recognizing which one you fed it
from the file extension.  It does line-by-line syntax checking as it
goes, and it can be modified with REXX scripts.  LPEX comes in CSD#2 for
the PL/I for OS/2 toolkit (which doesn't help you much if you don't do
PL/I ), and can be found on DevCon 9 as part of the VA C++ package (I
don't know if it will vanish after the 60 days!).  If you've got an
updated VA C++ (the editor filedate is 11-07-95) it should be in there,
somewhere.

    Its only trouble is that it is a PM text editor, an oxymoron if I
ever heard one, with all the ills of such beasts.  But if you like EPM,
you may prefer this one.

    Regards,

          --Murray

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