sorry for no OT: prefix - I wanted the techies to see the question ;-) Does anyone have a link to a searchable vi (editor) reference? Here's what I want to do, described using Qedit commands: c30/30\"\@;c1\longstringplus"\@ (which changes column 30 to a " in every line of the file, and inserts longstringplus" at column 1 in every line of the file). My only vi reference is OReilly's vi pocket ref. the (space-delimited) sequence <return>30|r" does part 1 one time, so I tried :map z ^M30|r" so I could invoke the series via "z". it tries to work but does something wrong trying to use a filename grr. So, does anybody have a link to a good searchable vi reference, please? Thanks in advance, Tracy Pierce * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *