I have been reworking an old program shell in spare minutes scraped from nights and dreamtime. Last night while testing it, I found that it implemented pasting, even tho: - i don't use FB's edit menu, but my own - i grab the menu choice with my own FN doPaste I believed that FB would control cut/paste/copy in the runtime if you used the EDIT MENU command and just let it do its stuff. I (thought I) had overridden it as I will need to cut/copy/paste other than just text. Can anyone push me (gently) in the right direction as to when FB (vanilla) takes over these menu commands and how I can tell it to leave well alone and let me knit these things for myself. jonathan (the phenomenum being reproducible in daylight hours, it doesn't seem to be induced by reduced sleep - unless of course, I'm still sleeping now...)