Rodney, Molly, "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" by Bob Glickstein includes creating new major and minor modes. The material is (on the whole) applicable to Xemacs. The ISBN number is 1-56592-261-1. I have successfully used this to create simple major and minor modes. However this is not a trivial task. Especially if you are not familiar with emacs-lisp. Good luck, Steve -----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-bounces(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-bounces＠xemacs.org] On Behalf Of Rodney Sparapani Sent: 01 May 2007 17:35 To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: creating a new mode Was: Hello, Molly Scannell wrote: Color1 when I write, and others turn up highlighted Color2. I understand how to turn on syntax highlighting, but could you possibly give me an example It sounds like you want to create a new mode. This is not a trivial task for most users. But, there is one shortcut, you can create a new mode from one of the many that xemacs already knows about with derived-mode. See the following link for a very brief intro: http://www.gnu.org./software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_node/Derived-Modes.html However, I'm not sure this is the right group for such a discussion. I wish I knew which group that was because it would have helped me alot when I got started. Rodney _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta