andy wrote the following: > aid in my rustiness with > vi. Just a thought, have you considered using Bbedit lite or full version instead? (although lite is no longer active it may be still available for download) or even have a look at emacs or Xemacs for a friendlier interface...while vi is available on every *nix variation and it does pay to know the basics in this editor...it seems rather like torture to use it exclusively (IMHO). The others are just as good for the purpose and may provide a better interface...try them out... > I suppose it was all > masked as > a way of further procrastination from studying calculus. You say this like it was a bad thing! Getting to know emacs can keep you occupied for a good long time as well ;-) BTW, emacs is installed as part of OS X and can be started by typing 'emacs' in terminal Cheers, Richard --