Uwe Brauer writes: You mean something like this (each line represents a new state of the *same* line in the display after each keystroke, while _ represents the cursor): _s _hs _ahs _lahs _olahs _molahs Yes, that should be easy enough to implement in XEmacs. (defun hebrew-after-change (begin end old-length) "If a Hebrew character was apparently inserted, move cursor before it." (when (and (= 1 (- end begin)) ; these two conditions make it highly (= 0 old-length) ; likely the last command was a self-insert (eq 'hebrew-iso8859-8 (char-charset (char-after begin)))) (backward-char 1))) (add-to-list 'after-change-functions 'hebrew-after-change) This implementation has a number of problems, I'm pretty sure, but probably it won't get in your way in non-Hebrew buffers. The problems I can think of offhand are that after-change-functions is permanent buffer local, so you probably have to do this in every buffer where you want to use it, and it can be fooled by other commands that do insertions (and in particular it's probably possible that (point) != end, so you may get a little weird behavior from the cursor if some program yanks a single character). If that sort of works for you, we can talk about improving it. I think I already know how to solve both of the problems above, but this is just a proof of concept that I haven't time to test myself. And I'm not confident there aren't loads of other problems. ;-) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta