schoedel at kw.igs.net wrote: Just realized I had to make another comment on this. In TECO, the number before a command is not generally a count, but an argument. Some commands use that as a count, while others use it for all kind of stuff. It all depends on what makes most sense for the specific command. If you really want a repeat, you'd better create a loop instead. And in general, you don't have any arguments after a command, with a few exceptions. So normally you just stack letters together, and they are all separate commands. (The commands that take an argument after the command that I can think of are I (for insert, which inserts everything after the I, unless you give a numeric argument, in which case it inserts the corresponding byte) and O (for branching in a program, which takes a label string). Oh, and all commands related to q-registers take the q-registername after the command. (Hmm, there are probably one or two more, but I can't remember them right now.) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol