On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Even what most people call > insert 'mode' is a command that takes an optional repeat count: try > 20i -<escape> to get a dashed line. > Maybe being old enough to have used keyboards without arrows or > function keys helps, though... Sorry, I grew with DR-DOS and the Wordstar hotkeys. ie Ctrl-K-B Ctrl-K-K (mark text block). It's engraved in my brain cells. That's why I use Joe... or "pico" back in the days of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3... FC