I really like the support that AUCTeX gives for ConTeXt. Actually, in general it does well with any flavor. I'll have to RTFM to see what I can do to start a new file specifically in ConTeXt, plain, or whatever, not just LaTeX. The weird thing is that it reports unspecified "problems" at the end of running context but no such problems really exist. The trivial snippet: \starttext Hello, world! \stoptext yields the message buffer: Updating define menu... Updating setup menu... Updating other macro's menu... Updating project structure menu... Updating section block menu... Updating section menu... Updating...done Type `C-c C-l' to display results of compilation. ConTeXt: problems after {1} page. The pdf generated is, however, entirely satisfactory, as are all texted documents. My strategy is to ignore it. This appears specific to AUCTeX, in this case running on GTK Emacs 22 / Ubuntu 8.04. By contrast, I have minimal to no problems on my OS X installation. Charles