I recall a few years back you were looking for way to copy pieces of frequently used text from buffers into different documents. I don't know if you every found exactly what you were looking for, but tonite I came across xcb: http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/xcb.html -- Daniel S. Washko Lehigh Valley Linux Users Group www.thelinuxlink.net/lvlinux get slack (www.slackware.com ) and get happy