From: Michael Trier Date: 2006-04-03T22:09:18+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and xemacs syntax highlighting Here's my relevant section. By the way this gives you the Ink (whatever they call it look) ;; ruby-mode (autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Load ruby-mode") (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode)) ;; uncomment the next line if you want syntax highlighting (add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (cond ((fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode) ;; Customize face attributes (setq font-lock-face-attributes ;; Symbol-for-Face Foreground Background Bold Italic Underline '((font-lock-comment-face "Purple") (font-lock-string-face "green") (font-lock-keyword-face "orange red") (font-lock-function-name-face "orange1") (font-lock-variable-name-face "white") (font-lock-type-face "white" "black" "false" "false" "true") (font-lock-reference-face "Purple") )) ;; Load the font-lock package. (require 'font-lock) ;; Maximum colors (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) ;; Turn on font-lock in all modes that support it (global-font-lock-mode t)))