bug-reference-bug-regexp is matched case-insensitively, while both its default value and the example regexp "\\([Bb]ug[#-]\\([0-9]+\\)\\)" from the "Bug Reference" section of the manual indicate otherwise. To reproduce, save attached file as bugref.txt, then: $ emacs -Q bugref.txt It will correctly highlight "bug-1234" and "Bug-5678" but also "bUg-9012" which shouldn't be matched by the regexp. In GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.18.2) of 2024-09-27 built on localhost Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101013 System Description: Gentoo Linux Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --disable-silent-rules --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-29.4 --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-29.4/html --libdir=/usr/lib64 --program-suffix=-emacs-29 --includedir=/usr/include/emacs-29 --infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-29 --localstatedir=/var --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --without-compress-install --without-hesiod --without-pop --with-file-notification=inotify --with-pdumper --enable-acl --with-dbus --with-modules --with-gameuser=:gamestat --with-libgmp --with-gpm --without-native-compilation --without-json --without-kerberos --without-kerberos5 --with-lcms2 --with-xml2 --without-mailutils --without-selinux --without-sqlite3 --with-gnutls --without-libsystemd --with-threads --without-tree-sitter --without-wide-int --with-sound=alsa --with-zlib --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns --without-gconf --with-gsettings --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-xpm --with-xft --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz --with-libotf --with-m17n-flt --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-xaw3d --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tiff --without-webp --with-imagemagick --with-dumping=pdumper 'CFLAGS=-march=native -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fno-fast-math -ffp-contract=off' CPPFLAGS= 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs'' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ IMAGEMAGICK JPEG LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF X11 XAW3D XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM LUCID ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LANG: POSIX locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: bug-reference-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils vc-hg vc-bzr vc-src vc-sccs vc-svn vc-cvs vc-rcs log-view pcvs-util vc-git diff-mode easy-mmode vc cl-loaddefs cl-lib vc-dispatcher bug-reference byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 54606 8541) (symbols 48 7145 0) (strings 32 21703 1671) (string-bytes 1 606203) (vectors 16 13609) (vector-slots 8 188733 15492) (floats 8 38 39) (intervals 56 355 0) (buffers 976 13))