I'm not sure what the problem is. However, if the problem relates to the syntactical significance of the underscore (_) character, then, yes, jde-mode redefines underscore to be a word character rather than a punctuation character. I did this several years ago at the request of a number of JDEE users who like to use underscore as a prefix for field names as part of their coding convention, e.g., _EmployeeName. I personally find this practice barbaric but went ahead and made the change anyway. I suppose I could make this an option. I haven't done so because nobody has complained until now and because standard Java coding convention is to NOT use underscores as word separators, i.e., to prefer EmployeeName to employee_name. - Paul