elvis syntax highlighting

Hi All, I was just wondering if anyone using elvis (vi clone) has managed to get syntax highlighting working properly? ive stuffed around with it for ages now ..even downloading and replacing my elvis.syn file and still i only get black and white syntax highlighting regardless of the terminal i use. this is driving me nuts ..vim doesnt do hex editing as well as elvis, but syntax highlighting works a treat! i know it works as ive seen screen grabs of it. someone please help Adam