Great! That does just what I want!

Thanks,

Jim

>>I like this approach; at least I understand it.
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>>Two questions:
>>First, my strings usually do not have line-ends (CR-LF's). Is there some way to make the thing wrap (a la editbox)?
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>Modify File instead of Modify Command. You get a plain text editor with wrapping turned on by default.
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>>Second, Ctrl-W complains about "unrecognized command verb" (compiling, presumably). Can I temporarily turn this off? (I hate to ignore each time ...)
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>That'd be in your foxuser.dbf, i.e. in menu/tools/options/editor, uncheck "compile when saving". But if you don't want to have it compiled, Modify File doesn't even try to compile. It's just editing text.