Am 06. May, 2001 schwäzte Eden Li so: > Try: > > :map #ee :+1,/^--$/d OK, I was obviously hosing the pattern match exp cuz I tried that last night :). Maybe I was throwing something in front of the slash... map ,,de :/^der\.hans$/,/^--\s*$/dider.hans-- This *is* what I've been looking for :). Most danke! BTW, I was having probs getting this to work from mail even though it was working fine from a scratch vim buffer I pulled up from the command line. It was due othe the '-u'. That precludes all other initialisation files. I presume there's something in /etc/vimrc that I needed in order for the mappings to work properly. I will be adding Nate's autocmd suggestion next :). ciao, der.hans -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Aligo.com # Motorraeder toeten nicht. Motorraeder werden getoetet.