diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
index 5a830f8..a256c8f 100644
--- a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
+++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
@@ -1713,6 +1713,18 @@
      (add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook 'lisp-extra-font-lock-mode)
    #+End_src
 
+** Hightlight numbers mode
+
+   I find this regular expression to work better at identifying
+   general numbers as the default one doesn't consider numbers
+   starting with a sign or a decimal point.
+
+   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+     (stante-after highlight-numbers
+       (setq highlight-numbers-generic-regexp
+             "\\_<[-+]?[[:digit:]]+\\(?:\.[[:digit:]]+\\)?.*?\\_>"))
+   #+END_SRC
+
 * Final touches
 
   These options and calls need to come last so they don't interfere