diff --git a/cmd/micro/highlighter.go b/cmd/micro/highlighter.go
index 8f6a6c38..43ea289a 100644
--- a/cmd/micro/highlighter.go
+++ b/cmd/micro/highlighter.go
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ var preInstalledSynFiles = []string{
 	"nanorc",
 	"nginx",
 	"ocaml",
+	"pascal",
 	"patch",
 	"peg",
 	"perl",
diff --git a/runtime/syntax/README.md b/runtime/syntax/README.md
index d4d3c6c9..3a6a5290 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/README.md
+++ b/runtime/syntax/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Here is a list of the files that have been converted to properly use colorscheme
 * rust
 * java
 * javascript
+* pascal
 * python
 * ruby
 * sh
diff --git a/runtime/syntax/pascal.micro b/runtime/syntax/pascal.micro
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b48697c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runtime/syntax/pascal.micro
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+syntax "pascal" "\.pas$"
+
+# color identifier "\b[\pL_][\pL_\pN]*\b"
+
+color comment "//.*"
+color comment start="\(\*" end="\*\)"
+color comment start="({)(?:[^$])" end="}"
+
+color special start="asm" end="end"
+
+color type "\b(?i:(string|ansistring|widestring|shortstring|char|ansichar|widechar|boolean|byte|shortint|word|smallint|longword|cardinal|longint|integer|int64|single|currency|double|extended))\b"
+
+color statement "\b(?i:(and|asm|array|begin|break|case|const|constructor|continue|destructor|div|do|downto|else|end|file|for|function|goto|if|implementation|in|inline|interface|label|mod|not|object|of|on|operator|or|packed|procedure|program|record|repeat|resourcestring|set|shl|shr|then|to|type|unit|until|uses|var|while|with|xor))\b"
+color statement "\b(?i:(as|class|dispose|except|exit|exports|finalization|finally|inherited|initialization|is|library|new|on|out|property|raise|self|threadvar|try))\b"
+color statement "\b(?i:(absolute|abstract|alias|assembler|cdecl|cppdecl|default|export|external|forward|generic|index|local|name|nostackframe|oldfpccall|override|pascal|private|protected|public|published|read|register|reintroduce|safecall|softfloat|specialize|stdcall|virtual|write))\b"
+
+color constant "\b(?i:(false|true|nil))\b"
+color constant "\$[0-9A-Fa-f]+" "\b[+-]?[0-9]+([.]?[0-9]+)?(?i:e[+-]?[0-9]+)?"
+
+color constant.string "'(?:[^']+|'')*'"
+
+
+
+color preproc start="{\$" end="}"
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