You probably want to set dotexptsimp:false globally. Then %i55 will work as expected, without the second expand_ncexpt. Or locally do expand(%), dotexptsimp:false -s On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote: > (x+a) . (x+a) . (x+a) . (x+a)