Hi, I'm using ruby-mode.el rev 1.22, it seems to be the latest version since it's dated 2000/10/11... Anyway, when I write a regular expression containing '/', such as java_comment = /\s*\/\*/ the font colors are "inverted" from that point on, i e everything outside quotes has the quote color (beige or whatever), and incidental keywords and "pseudo-syntax" within quotes are highlighted... My workaround right now is to add the line # / to "fool" ruby-mode and get back to normal... It's not a pretty solution, though, and my e-lisp skills are less than sufficient to fix it myself ;-) Any takers? I'm using GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386) by the way, _not_ xemacs... (whatever difference that could possibly make?) Thanks in advance, Niklas