Marco van de Voort wrote:

Ever wondered that this might be simply to avoid problems with the RAD scanning part, and the fact that the syntax highlighting is done by the compiler itself?

You are so obsessed with putting a C stamp on Delphi that you miss the obvious :-)

Just didn't know this particular problem... vi doesn't give me syntax highlighting anyway. ;-) But yes, since I was forced to work with Delphi for a year, I might be a little bit obsessive about it.