Of course I didn't place the on text event in the aliases section :P, but I performed a small test with echo -a $active in an alias in the aliasses section and there you need the //. Maybe he has more than one on text event as you said, maybe he has put it in the aliasses section, maybe he oversaw the echo on his screen, maybe he forgot a } somewhere ... and sorry for my english smile By the way how do you call a } ?