I am very new to jEdit and I am trying to set up my initial environment.

I hope to use jEdit to write/edit short text programs for a proprietary extension of a CAD application. The syntax of these files are somewhat similar to Fortran, with some exceptions.

I am trying to select a edit mode that will allow for syntax highlighting. Since text mode will not show highlighting, I have selected Fortran. This mode seems to distiguish comments but nothing else.

Is there a resource I could use for selecting the best edit mode to allow for syntax highlighting? Or can a syntax standard be created for use in jEdit?

Some examples of the syntax:
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! used for comments in the programs

! first if end statement
IF_1
...
END_IF_1

! second if end statement
IF_2
...
END_IF_2

SEARCH_MDL_REF !typical reference call but a variable is added
USER_SELECT !typical user input
...
etc.
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