Samuel Thibault writes: >This is because vim show the cursor position at the last line of the >display. You can disable that completely by putting > >set noruler > >in your .vimrc file. Pressing ctrl-G or g ctrl-G will let you get this >information just once whenever you need it. Thank you. That is exactly what I needed. In my work, I run across Linux systems using vim often enough that this is a serious issue when trying to edit important files. Vim will let you look at binary files as well as do lots of other neat things but that ruler display disrupts any speech output that is looking at incoming characters, making it easy to be off by a position or to if not careful. It's kind of nasty if you happen to knock off the right brace or delete the wrong line in a configuration file on someone else's system that they are trusting you to make better, not totally hose. It's even more important if they are paying you to fix it. Again, many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list