Hi All, I'm trying to get vi to display an ab like so, ab htm <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> \<html> \<head> \<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"> \<title>NewUser</title> \</head> \<body> \</body> \</html> but, when I input the text htm and press the spacebar, I get the following, <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>NewUser</title></head><body></body></html> not the desired result. If I remove the leading backslashes, I get errors when starting vi, [racket at ibmlap htdocs]$ sudo vi newuser.php Error detected while processing /home/racket/.exrc: line 26: E488: Trailing characters: <html> line 27: E488: Trailing characters: <head> line 28: E488: Trailing characters: <meta contentline 29: E488: Trailing characters: <title>NewUser</title> line 30: E488: Trailing characters: </head> line 31: E488: Trailing characters: <body> line 32: E488: Trailing characters: </body> line 33: E488: Trailing characters: </html> Hit ENTER or type command to continue How do I get the desired result? Cheers. Mark Sargent.