Only since the subject was brought up recently, some of you might find
this interesting:

http://eclipsed.net/scintila/

Yes, this relates very specifically to NetBSD (and to the mac68k port,
since half the machines in our cluster are 68k macs).

No, we don't have anything implemented yet, what's there is a plan
whose implementation will begin (and only begin) this summer.

Feel free to contact me with comments (sending them to
gr@cs.swarthmore.edu rather than this address would be ideal).

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net