It would be nice if there was a way to only highlight the contents of the blocks, rather than the blocks themselves, or if there was an easy way to match both capital/lower-case letters. Cheers -- Eric [1] #\+begin_quote[^\000]+?\+end_quote Scot Becker writes: >> >> I use [^\000]+ for a multiline regexp (learned this from the org-mode >> code actually).  It seems to match pretty much everything. > > In that case something like this should work as a regexp value for > hi-lock-face-buffer: > > ^#\+BEGIN_QUOTE[^\000]+?\+END_QUOTE > > face: italic > > ... should work, but it only matches the first time for me, not every > time as I would expect. > > Scot