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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | # JOE syntax highlight file for Whitespace
# by Christian Nicolai (http://mycrobase.de)
=Idle
=Space inverse red
=Tab inverse green
:idle Idle
* idle
" " space recolor=-1
"\t" tab recolor=-1
:space Space
* idle noeat
:tab Tab
* idle noeat
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