Listmates: I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a smb.conf I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over all the comments and leading whitespace in the file. See (38k): http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vi-orange.jpg What is the magic that makes this happen and ... more important ... how do I turn it off? I don't even know what setting to start looking for on this one? Anybody else run across this? In case the environment is important to the answer, I on my laptop running openSuSE 11.0 using konsole on kde 3.5.10 and using ssh to open a terminal to my new archlinux box. Dunno? Maybe that makes a difference? Any thoughts on this one are welcomed. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com