I got an answer from the Support Center. It goes as follows:
[Updated on 5/23/2003 5:06:15 AM by:
[email protected]]
Hi Hugh,
For item number 2 (custom fore colors), this was a bug. I have fixed this for the next version of Edit, which is due out any day now.
For the first item - I am looking into this. As you can see, there currently is not a good way to perform this.
-Trampas