I just found out that this bug is NOT in ncurses but in richtext. It works well with termcap but not with terminfo. Michael -- Michael Meskes | _____ ________ __ ____ meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de | / ___// ____/ // / / __ \___ __________ meskes@sanet.de | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ meskes@debian.org | ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux! | /____/_/ /_/ /____/\___/_/ /____/