note sk Shebangs is meaningful only on the first 2 bytes in the first line of a file. <p> <c> #!/usr/bin/perl print "hi\n"; </c><p> call that prog "hi" and try to chmod +x on it and run it. It will work fine. (of course assuming the path to perl is correct) Now add a blank line above <c>#!</c>. Try to run this again. What do you see? Also try to add a space before shebang. what happens now? <p> Vim is not looking to see if the shebang is on the first line or not. That's why it is coloring it.<p> In short, that line is just a comment if it is in the middle of the code. -SK<p> <b>Update</b>: Please see [ysth]'s reply on how shebang can have other stuff before it. <p> 523394 523394