The dialog boxes, fortunately, are configurable. I suspect that most users will want the dialog boxes turned on when they are learning their way around Crisp, and they will gradually turn them off. One reason is that you can get more work done without the dialog boxes. As with the character version, comments are shaded. Language keywords, such as if, case, and int, appear in blue.
Strings appear in red.
Crisp has vi emulation. With the X-Windows version, the vi commands and the GUI features are interchangeable. As I said, discussing all of the features of Crisp would make this a very long article. I will mention a few that I don't have any personal experience with, but the developers are very proud of. If you have a color PostScript printer, you'll get a really fancy listing.