Hello The following setting works in lisp mode (let ((lisp-regexp-4 " ?\\(\\<\\*[a-zA-Z]*\\*\\>\\)")) (setq lisp-font-lock-keywords-1 (append lisp-font-lock-keywords-1 (list (list lisp-regexp-4 0 'font-lock-log-warn-face t)))) (setq lisp-font-lock-keywords-2 (append lisp-font-lock-keywords-2 (list (list lisp-regexp-4 0 'font-lock-log-warn-face t))))) Every word surrounded by an * gets highlighted by the font-lock-log-warn-face. I tried something similar for LaTeX mode namely (add-to-list 'font-latex-keywords ;Version-1.14 '(" ?\\(\\<\\*[a-zA-Z]*\\*\\>\\)" 1 'font-lock-comment-warn-face append t)) (add-to-list 'font-latex-keywords-1 ;Version-1.14 '(" ?\\(\\<\\*[a-zA-Z]*\\*\\>\\)" 1 'font-lock-comment-warn-face append t)) (add-to-list 'font-latex-keywords-2 ;Version-1.14 '(" ?\\(\\<\\*[a-zA-Z]*\\*\\>\\)" 1 'font-lock-comment-warn-face append t)) But it does not work the words surrounded by * don't get highlighted. Unfortunately the docstring of fonts-latex-keyword does not give much information. Can anybody help me? Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta