I apologize in advance if this is an obvious question and for the fact that I can't debug this myself (I'm not that good at elisp yet). I'm running XEmacs 21.0 "Pyrenean-pre8" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin32' (Cygwin32 20.1, Installation file appended). It was built from the CVS source on November 28. It's built for X. I have the SUMO packages tarball from 12/9/98 (I didn't have *any* packages at first since I had done some disk arranging and I'm amazed it ran at all!). When my ~/.emacs includes a (require 'font-lock) I get nice colors in different modes. However when I try to load a shell script (my .bashrc, for example) I get the following error: No match 2 in highlight (2 font-lock-comment-face t) The one package that looked suspicious to me was in sh-script/sh-script.el in the function sh-font-lock-keywords which has the following: (defun sh-font-lock-keywords (&optional keywords) "Function to get simple fontification based on `sh-font-lock-keywords'. This adds rules for comments and assignments." (sh-feature sh-font-lock-keywords (lambda (list) `((,(concat (sh-feature sh-comment-prefix) "\\(#.*\\)") 2 font-lock-comment-face t) (,(sh-feature sh-assignment-regexp) 1 font-lock-variable-name-face) ,＠keywords ,＠list)))) That's about all I figure out on my own. Please let me know of any additional information that would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Todd