If you have a file `Maße', this appears in a completion list as `Ma\M-_e' since metafied characters are treated specially. I vaguely remember a discussion about this but I don't remember why it was decided to print them in this way (and I mean metafied characters that are printable). Or was this just an oversight? Giving people using such filenames what they deserve? Can anyone remind me? Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de