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+ExtraSyn
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+This package contains about 35 highlighters for SynEdit, such as ruby, haskel, 
+eiffel, fortran, modula 3, CA-Clipper, prolog, cobol, gnuplot, etc. 
+
+They were provided by various users in bug report 
+https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18248.
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+There is a runtime and designtime package: compile the runtime package 
+(extrahighlighters.lpk) and install the designtime package
+(extrahighlighters_dsgn.lpk).
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+There is also a test application that creates and loads the highlighters. 
+Some of them do not provide sample code and will not show anything in the
+test application.
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