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Nope, that's fine. There would never be any words like... %dumb ...without a ; in it. At least not that I'd be worried about. And the only other time % shows up is by itself with a space after it at the beginning of a line. So that's fine. It is highligted by itself which is little trouble for anyon...

I just figured it out I think. If I use the substring notation and set it up as... ** % ; ...that works. Marker Charactes is definatly a good thing to know though and I really didn't get the definition of delimiters and what they are good for from the help topic the first time I read it. Your exampl...

Thanks! That works pretty well. The problem I have now is that one of the two characters also shows up places alone and if the marked string happens to be on the same line then the whole line gets marked. Is there a way to mark something like this where spaces wouldn't be included? Here's an example...

...and what does it do? What I'd like to do is highlight anything between two delimeters. Either that or just highlight or color the delimeter characters.