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First off, looks like an interesting program.
Will try it out when my next personal project starts.
As for syntax highlighting. I voted "never without it", even though if really necessary I could because of the way I indent my code. Currently I use TextPad and really like it. Intellisense I guess is the text that pops up while you type to tell you what you can insert? Love-slash-hate relationship. I use NetBeans for my Java and it has this and while it is useful, it also annoys the **** out of me sometimes, like you cannot just continue typing once oyur in the list, you need to click away first, or when I want to see my previous lines and it's hovering over them... I'd rather there'd be some kind of list at the side that is constantly updated, so I can look at it only if I have to, once it goes on to passing parameters, the hovering is fine though, since it is usually rather small then.
Back to syntax highlighting, if it's customiseable colour-wise, it's good. I like to use very opposite colours and then group similar things together with shades.
Another thing that is important to me, which TextPad, doesn't really fulfill is smart indentation. Optimally an options menu where you can just tell it to indent by three spaces everytime you do a new line inside of an open tag (or let us create a template, which I assume would be hard to define for all the languages related to web design...).
And when you hit new line, it should keep the indent, but if you hit backspace, even just once, it should delete the whole indent. If you hit delete to bring up the contents of the old line to this line, then go to the beginning of the line (indent included) and hit enter, it should remove the additional spaces that have been added to the indent.
I know, very anal, but it steals my precious time.
Ideally a "format code" option somewhere, so if you take over another project you can adjust it to your needs.
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