Charles Crawford staggered into view and mumbled: > is there a block and delete function in Pine I can use? Yes. Try control-6 to start marking text. Start at the beginning of the place you want to mark. Press control-6. Then move to the end of the text and press control-k. If you want to move this text somewhere else, you can use control-u in the new location for your text that you deleted. Lorenzo It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator