JASSPA's MicroEmacs performs file sytanx specific hilighting, indentation and restyling. Additional syntax specific operations may be applied to the buffer. The image on the right depicts file syntax hilighting in addition to folding (or hiding) of the function body within the 'C' programing language.

These effects are created using the hilighting methods which are defined using MicroEmacs macro language, the key tokens of the langauage are identified within the macro definition and assigned a different display attribute. The folding operation is also a visual effect, the actual code contained within the leftmost braces is simply hidden, but still resides within the editor. The folds are opened and closed using a click of the mouse or key stroke.

File syntax specific processing is currently available for the following file types, new methods are progressivelly being added and may be simply created for file types not listed below:-