Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > deletes the character *after* the cursor. If this was the last character, > then there's nothing more to delete. Just try this in any string entry > field, for instance the "Subject" line of your email client. These are > usually always in insert mode. If you press "Del" several times it will > delete everything after the cursor, but nothing before it. Yes, of course. But thats also true in overwrite mode (where supported): The cursor remains after the last char, and del does nothing. And of course with a real keyboard there's also the backspace key. Anyway, its not a big issue, so just do the shot patch. Cheers, Udo