Jan> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: APA> (setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode) Jan> Note that this statement is meaningless under XEmacs (it is a Jan> FSF thing in font-lock v2). Under XEmacs these things (still) Jan> get handled using font-lock-mode hook and friends. Hello Jan, thanks for guidance, I was very confused. When I add this to site-start.el: (remove-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'turn-on-lazy-lock) (add-hook 'font-lock-mode-hook 'turn-on-fast-lock) vc-revert-buffer1 retains the fontification! Regards, Adrian