i would also consider the use of font styles syntax highlighting...
I saw such a thing in Turbo Pascal 5.5 for the first time and the only thing they did was the use of bolding for language keywords, like in this book:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur...
then in Delphi 1.0:
https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c38bc3b1-c3a1-2a2d-6211-c3...
and in upcoming versions, it started to use italic for comments, but still no colors, yet we called it syntax highlighting. but my memories might be inaccurate :)
No, I think that's definitely fair and I absolutely agree. I just used syntax highlighting in place of colour schemes as I feel that's how most people would interpret it these days.