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K Hollingworth <kh25@york.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<badelr$paa$2@pump1.york.ac.uk>...
> According to emacs I have 
> 
> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Fri Mar 16 2001 on
> porky.devel.redhat.com
> 
> I would like to customise c++ mode so that lines starting std::cerr are
> marked in a different red as most of them are for debugging and it
> would be nice to be able to spot them easily.  Is this possible?  It
> would be acceptable to mark everything in the std namespace in red.
> 
> I'm a bit of a newbie with emacs so apologies as I don't know all the
> terminology yet!

M-x highlight-phrase RET std:cerr RET

In the buffer when you need it would be what I would do.