>>>>> In <4n7k79vzjy.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> >>>>> Ted Zlatanov wrote: > What I posted is the only customization involving fontlock I have. In > any case, add-keywords should not override any other font locking, > according to the docs, that's why I'm puzzled. > I guess I can look at the message mode source. I'm just so busy right > now that I will probably get to it next year :) If you use turn-on-font-lock for the message-mode, replace it with `(lambda nil (font-lock-mode 1))' and your message buffer will revive. :) Since message-mode is derived from text-mode as Johan Bockg.ANerd said, font-lock is first turned on for the text-mode and only keywords for the text-mode are used. When font-lock has already been turned on, even if turn-on-font-lock is performed for the message-mode, nothing changes (see font-lock.el). -- Katsumi Yamaoka