Paul Prescod <paulp / ActiveState.com> wrote in
<3ADF2659.95E22A4D / ActiveState.com>: 

>Just to be clear: Scintilla does not use rules files. It uses lexers
>written in C. This gives it the flexibility to color context-dependent
>grammars like Perl and C++.
>

Paul,
after having downloaded the sources, I got aware of this fact too.
Thanks anyway
Clemens
BTW: Paul and (Andrew): looks like Ruby seems to by an interesting
alternative for Python-pros ;-)