cc-mode doesn't seem to recognize that c type specifiers can come in any order (and I prefer them after so they're modifying the base type), so the highlighting doesn't work right for the variable name. Here's an example in a struct, works the same way in a function: struct foo { unsigned int One; int unsigned Two; }; emacs -Q results: I couldn't see an easy way of fixing this (besides just adding all the combos to *-font-lock-extra-types). Seems like there needs to be a c-primitive-type-postfix-kwds variable to do this right? Thanks, Chris In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2022-09-13 built on AVALON Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044 System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (v10.0.2009.19044.2251) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-O2' Configured features: ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XPM ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: ELisp/l Minor modes in effect: hexl-follow-ascii: t minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t icicle-mode: t which-function-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t winner-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t 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