Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Texmaker customise syntax highlighting.

[darstedlyplans]

I'm wondering if there is any way to add new syntax highlighting patterns to Texmaker.

I've been using Texworks for years and I love that special characters $ & { [ etc are highlighted differently form everything else. The rest of the Texworks editor is a little minimalist though and I've been thinking of changing to a more feature rich editor. In particular, I love the "structure" and code folding that Texmaker offers.

In Texworks you can define custom syntax patterns by editing the "syntax-patterns.txt" file. Is there a similar thing hidden in Texmaker somewhere? I've obviously found the custom syntax colouring menu in Preferences>colour but this has a very prescriptive set of categories with no option to highlight custom strings differently.

Alternatively, does anybody know of another editor which offers customisable or Texworks-style syntax highlighting and code folding.

Failing that, Texmaker is open source right? Does anybody know about how syntax highlighting is taken care of? Perhaps I could hack a solution implementing customisable syntax highlighting for Texmaker.