I'm trying to use the following setup to "hilit" my bbdb buffer: (hilit-set-mode-patterns 'bbdb-mode '(("^[^ \t].*" nil msg-from) ("^[ \t]+[^\\:]+:" nil msg-header))) (add-hook 'bbdb-list-hook 'hilit-rehighlight-buffer-quietly t) I have 2 "problems": 1. The buffer is highlighted on the following occasions: * M-x bbdb * M-TAB completion of mail abbrev * expansion of mail alias It is *not* highlighted when someone is noticed in RMAIL. I can add hilit-rehighlight-buffer-quietly to bbdb-notice-hook, and that doesn't help. That hook is called, but there is no highlighting. 2. This isn't really BBDB related, but it is shown up by the above example. I need to escape the ":" in the 2nd regular expression above! The emacs info for regexps says nothing about ":", but scanning the C code which handles regexps shows some special treatment of ":". By the way, I have seen bbdb-display, but since I use hilit19 I'd rather do the highlighting using it. Thanks... peace & happiness, martin -- _--_|\ Peace & Department of Computer Science / \ Happiness The Australian National University \_.--._/<------------------------------------------------------------------- v Martin Schwenke [EMAIL PROTECTED]