The Kate editor on Linux allows color-coded editing by creating custom XML files. If you're using Markdown we've created a custom XML file to enable color-coded editing of Markdown documents in the Linux Kate editor. Installation is easy, with only 1 XML file needed.
One of the advantages of Movable Type over Wordpress comes from publishing static HTML files (fetching data from the database for each page request doesn't scale well). By creating static HTML files, round trips to the database are eliminated and your blog is more likely to handle sudden bursts of high traffic. How many times have you gone to a popular Wordpress blog and seen database errors like ...