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## 3 Customizing Ada mode

Here we assume you are familiar with setting variables in Emacs, either thru ’customize’ or in elisp (in your `.emacs` file). For a basic introduction to customize, elisp, and Emacs in general, see the tutorial in The GNU Emacs Manual.

These global Emacs settings are strongly recommended (put them in your .emacs):

    (global-font-lock-mode t)
    (transient-mark-mode t)

‘`(global-font-lock-mode t)`’ turns on syntax highlighting for all buffers (it is off by default because it may be too slow for some machines).

‘`(transient-mark-mode t)`’ highlights selected text.

See the Emacs help for each of these variables for more information.