> (various?) *I* can spell. My keyboard can't, though. ☺ > why not change your EDITOR variable to be a script > that uses B to get the file into sam, This is the easy part. > and some other > signal or watchdog to get it back? This is the hard part. It happens that if I do something like this with mush, and simply wait until I've finished with the editor, I'm ok, but it's pretty fragile. That's why I was wondering if someone else had beat me to inventing this wheel.