You might look at jed instead of emacs. Jed has a very emacs-like finger-feel, but is a much smaller install. It also loads faster and is easier on system resources, which could be important on a 486 without a whole lot of RAM. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA dthayer@netcom.com david.thayer@state.co.us -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null