diff --git a/runtime/syntax/c++.micro b/runtime/syntax/c++.micro
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bcf1e929
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runtime/syntax/c++.micro
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+## Here is an example for C++.
+##
+syntax "c++" "\.c(c|pp|xx)$" "\.h(h|pp|xx)$" "\.ii?$" "\.(def)$"
+color identifier "\b[A-Z_][0-9A-Z_]+\b" 
+color type "\b(auto|float|double|bool|char|int|short|long|sizeof|enum|void|static|const|constexpr|struct|union|typedef|extern|(un)?signed|inline)\b"
+color type "\b((s?size)|((u_?)?int(8|16|32|64|ptr)))_t\b"
+color statement "\b(class|namespace|template|public|protected|private|typename|this|friend|virtual|using|mutable|volatile|register|explicit)\b"
+color statement "\b(for|if|while|do|else|case|default|switch)\b"
+color statement "\b(try|throw|catch|operator|new|delete)\b"
+color statement "\b(goto|continue|break|return)\b"
+color preproc "^[[:space:]]*#[[:space:]]*(define|pragma|include|(un|ifn?)def|endif|el(if|se)|if|warning|error)"
+color constant "'([^'\\]|(\\["'abfnrtv\\]))'" "'\\(([0-3]?[0-7]{1,2}))'" "'\\x[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2}'"
+
+##
+## GCC builtins
+color statement "__attribute__[[:space:]]*\(\([^)]*\)\)" "__(aligned|asm|builtin|hidden|inline|packed|restrict|section|typeof|weak)__"
+
+#Operator Color
+color statement "[.:;,+*|=!\%]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&" 
+
+#Parenthetical Color
+# color magenta "[(){}]" "\[" "\]"
+
+color constant.number "\b[0-9]+\b" "\b0x[0-9A-Fa-f]+\b"
+color constant.number "\b(true|false)\b" "NULL"
+
+##
+## String highlighting.  You will in general want your brightblacks and
+## strings to come last, because syntax highlighting rules will be
+## applied in the order they are read in.
+color constant.string ""(\\.|[^"])*""
+##
+## This string is VERY resource intensive!
+#color cyan start=""(\\.|[^"])*\\[[:space:]]*$" end="^(\\.|[^"])*""
+
+## Comment highlighting
+color comment "//.*"
+color comment start="/\*" end="\*/"
+
+## Trailing whitespace
+#color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
diff --git a/runtime/syntax/c.micro b/runtime/syntax/c.micro
index 10a3b8ad..6ffd2281 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/c.micro
+++ b/runtime/syntax/c.micro
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-## Here is an example for C/C++.
+## Here is an example for C.
 ##
-syntax "c" "\.(c(c|pp|xx)?|C)$" "\.(h(h|pp|xx)?|H)$" "\.ii?$" "\.(def)$"
+syntax "c" "\.(c|C)$" "\.(h|H)$" "\.ii?$" "\.(def)$"
 color identifier "\b[A-Z_][0-9A-Z_]+\b" 
-color type "\b(auto|float|double|bool|char|int|short|long|sizeof|enum|void|static|const|constexpr|struct|union|typedef|extern|(un)?signed|inline)\b"
+color type "\b(float|double|char|int|short|long|sizeof|enum|void|static|const|struct|union|typedef|extern|(un)?signed|inline)\b"
 color type "\b((s?size)|((u_?)?int(8|16|32|64|ptr)))_t\b"
-color statement "\b(class|namespace|template|public|protected|private|typename|this|friend|virtual|using|mutable|volatile|register|explicit)\b"
+color statement "\b(typename|mutable|volatile|register|explicit)\b"
 color statement "\b(for|if|while|do|else|case|default|switch)\b"
 color statement "\b(try|throw|catch|operator|new|delete)\b"
 color statement "\b(goto|continue|break|return)\b"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ color statement "[.:;,+*|=!\%]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"
 # color magenta "[(){}]" "\[" "\]"
 
 color constant.number "\b[0-9]+\b" "\b0x[0-9A-Fa-f]+\b"
-color constant.number "\b(true|false)\b" "NULL"
+color constant.number "NULL"
 
 ##
 ## String highlighting.  You will in general want your brightblacks and