Doug McIlroy: A symptom of why I have always detested emacs and vi. With ^D, ^C, and ^\, Unix has more than enough mystery chords to learn. ==== What is this ^C mystery chord? Or can it be that I am actually more wedded to the past than Doug, in that I still use DEL as my interrupt character? And, for that matter, @ for kill (though in the modern world one has to type @ often enough to require learning a different modern-world mystery chord, ^V). I break with the past for character-erase, though: backspace, not #. Norman Wilson Toronto ON