#### 4.1.1 Basics ¶

The mode for editing mixal source files is inherited from fundamental-mode, meaning that all your favorite editing operations will still work. If you want a short introduction to Emacs, type `C-h t` inside Emacs to start the tutorial.

Mixal mode adds font locking. If you do not have font locking globally enabled, you can turn it on for mixal-mode by placing the following line in your `.emacs` file:

    (add-hook 'mixal-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

You can also customize the colors used to colour your mixal code by changing the requisite faces. This is the list of faces used by mixal-mode:

- font-lock-comment-face Face to use for comments.
- mixal-font-lock-label-face Face to use for label names.
- mixal-font-lock-operation-code-face Face to use for operation code names.
- mixal-font-lock-assembly-pseudoinstruction-face Face to use for assembly pseudo-instruction names.