"Color-Mate" is color customizing module for emacs/mule/xemacs/"Mule for Win32"/Meadow(Emacs20 for win32). "Color-Mate" requires emacs19/mule2.3 or upper version of emacs. And also requires hilit19.el(emacs/mule), font-lock.el(emacs/mule/xemacs), paren.el(emacs/mule/xemacs). Usually, these three files are install with emacs. If you want to more, see ${PREFIX}/share/doc/color-mate/README.color-mate.eng If you can use imput method(Wnn, Canna, Sj3, skk, leim, WindowsIME), "Color-Mate" is coloring imput method with "kanakan-sousor". If you want to more, see ${PREFIX}/share/doc/color-mate/README.kanakan-cursor.eng To use Color-Mate, put the next line into your ~/.emacs: (require 'color-mate-startup) and the next file into ~/.Xdefaults /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/color-mate/theme/SunnyDay.X WWW: http://www.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~yokota/izumi/color-mate/