> ci |blah W blah|yadda W yadda| and see if that works. It probably won't. Actually, it makes the change just fine. And I'm not getting a memory problem out of it. Just for fun, I did the following again today: ci /{qst}W{qst} W R{note} Yep, still makes a binary mess of the file, as soon as I try to scroll. ========================== shawn_harrison@xxxxxxxx ==========================