Thank you for that well-thought out answer. (My apologies for my late reply.) I was leaning toward VIM anyway. I'm reasonably comfortable with VI already (at least to the point that I keep a cheat sheet posted all the time in my cube, since vi is my first choice while in UNIX).

I guess I'll have to *really* learn those commands and get more comfortable with regular expressions. I can see the power in doing that, but it is a steep learning curve at first.

Thanks for the advice. (And if you get a chance to update the syntax file, I wouldn't complain!)

NMM