note Abigail-II <blockquote> To edit a file with vi do: <code> vi file.txt </code> </blockquote> This is a bit misleading. On many systems, if you do <tt>vi file.txt</tt>, you do indeed edit the file with <tt>vi</tt>, and <strong>not</strong> with <tt>vim</tt>. You discuss <tt>vim</tt>, and while <tt>vim</tt> has many similarities with <tt>vi</tt>, not everything you discuss will work in <tt>vi</tt>. For instance, not on every system will the arrow keys work as expected in <tt>vi</tt>. There's no syntax highlighting in <tt>vi</tt>, nor does <tt>vi</tt> have any perl hooks. <blockquote> It has 4 MODES. </blockquote> That's just an opinion. One could also argue that <tt>vi</tt> only has command mode. But some commands take arbitrary long arguments. <tt>;-)</tt>. <p> Abigail (using vi since 1984) 333737 333737