Quote Originally Posted by fullmetalcoder View Post
Good. Just curious : what do you do with this information? You display some additional text in a status panel or something like that?
i plan to have a dropdown in status panel, where i/the user can switch between the languages.

Quote Originally Posted by fullmetalcoder View Post
The use of a background color isn't difficult in itself... The only challenge is in finding the right paradigm to make this configurable... I'll think about it.
well, again. textmate is *the* reference. take a language bundle ( c/c++ for instance ) and look at the files and the structure used there.