Vi Water Walkers In plain vanilla vi on tru 64, how does one access the the command/search history eg :1,$ s/this/that/g then :1,$ s/then/this/g go edit the search you have to retype the whole line apparently n is supposed to get the command history but it doesn't In VIM on Linux the command history is conveniently available using the up arrow vi on tru 64 gets all wigged out... making life very painful You have to be in edit mode even when your in the --> : search thingy any pain relief for vi on tru 64 shared with the same UID ? something in the way of ... set -o emacs set vi -lesspain TIA bob -- "Oracle error messages being what they are, do not highlight the correct cause of fault, but will identify some other error located close to where the real fault lies." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l