Hello David and others, David, it is very difficult for me to answer your question from the "visual" point of view so I will try to describe it just as I see it. My main working environment in Linux is Emacspeak. And for me it is easier to think that the cursor is pointing on the character I am currently working with. Therefore, when I use command such as 'emacspeak-speak-char' and hear the result I always know that when I press a delete key this very character will be deleted and when I press a packspace key a character before the current character will be deleted. Of course this behaviour can be easily changed but it works just as like I want it to work. Hope I said something meaningful and useful for you. <smile> -- With best regards, Sergei. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list