Problem in XEmacs - Font lock related

Hi All, I have written a 'soapp.el' file to derive a major mode. In my mode every keyword starts with $. For example '$run'. I need to highlight the whole thing. But I could able to achieve the highlighting effect only on run keyword and not with dollar ($) character. How to highlight a character? Also, in my '.runin' file a comment starts with keyword comment. I need to highlight this. If I am providing the word directly in my keywords list, its not getting highlighted. Can you please provide me help in this regard? Here, is my soapp.el file for your reference. ***************************************************** soapp.el ***************************************************** ;;; Code: (defconst soapp-mode-version "version 0.01.0") (defgroup soapp nil "Soapp mode for XEmacs" :group 'languages) ;; font-lock-comment-face -COMMENTS ;; font-lock-keyword-face -COMMANDS,OPERATORS (let ((soapp-keywords ; ("run" "RUN" "end" "END" "set" "SET" "clo" "CLO" ; "cls" "CLS" "page" "PAGE" "CMT" "cmt" "BINNEW" "binnew" ; "comment" "COMMENT")) (concat "$run\\|RUN\\|" "$end\\|END\\|" "set\\|SET\\|" "clo\\|cls\\|CLO\\|CLS\\|" "page\\|PAGE\\|" "cmt\\|CMT\\|" "binnew\\|BINNEW\\|" "comment\\|COMMENT\\|")) ) (setq soapp-font-lock-keywords (list '("\"[^'\n]*'?" .font-lock-comment-face) (list (concat "\\<\\(go\\|spaw\\|spawn\\)\\>[ \t]*\\(\\sw+\\)?") '(1 font-lock-keyword-face) '(2 font-lock-function-name-face nil t)) ; (cons (concat "\\/\\("soapp-qualifiers "\\)\\>") 'font-lock-type-face) (concat "\\<\\("soapp-keywords"\\)\\>") )) "Default expressions to highlight in Soapp mode.") ------------------------------------------------------------------- ;;;###autoload (require 'derived) (define-derived-mode soapp-mode text-mode "Soapp" "Major mode for editing soapp .runin files. Special commands: \\{soapp-mode-map}" (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) "comment") (set-syntax-table (copy-syntax-table)) ; (modify-syntax-entry ?! "<") (modify-syntax-entry ?\n ">") (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) '(soapp-font-lock-keywords nil t))) (provide 'soapp) **************************************************** soapp.el **************************************************** Regards Phanender IEL, INDIA. ==== Off:040-23112296 Res:040-27061857