Guy, First of all, every editor supports arrows nowadays, as well as home and end and paging etc. The problem is that there are different characters or character sequences, usually beginning with Escape, depending on the terminal type. If you have one kind of terminal defined and the editor expects a different one, things won't work until you bring the two into agreement. That, of course, may beg the question because what you really want is an editor that is configured to match your terminal, or that can be made to match it easily. I haven't used pico but just the one time yesterday, but my impression is that it's of negligible real value. When they say it's a "simple" editor, I suspect they're very correct. Nano, judging by what I've heard, is a very sophisticated one and well worth getting. In terms of what's popular, Emacs and Vi (now called Vim) are likely the leaders. You probably have both, and at least one of them should be configured to match your system. (If they're not, you might consider getting a more mainstream Linux distro.) HTH, Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list