Hi, this is an update of my bug report from 7 Oct 2001. As I said in that message, when I start XEmacs, the files I open show in black until I do something in the Options|Syntax Highlighting menu. It's true not just for programming languages, but also for HTML (which I would expect), and I've just noticed a funny detail: the HTML coloring depends on whether I change syntax highlighting viewing an HTML buffer, or C++ buffer... The first attached picture shows the state after changing Options|Syntax Highlighting to Even More (viewing an HTML file). The second picture shows another instance of xemacs, where I selected the same menu option, but viewing a C++ file (with no HTML file loaded); then I opened an HTML file and got it automatically colored, with a different color scheme than in case 1... I can't make any sense of such behavior - perhaps somebody else can... Bye Vasek