Hello Schemers. It looks like Gambit associates the value 26 to the #\esc character, instead of 27. (char->integer #\esc) => 26 (integer->char 26) => #\esc it might be unintentional, but lib/_io.c has ___DEF_GLO(26,"##escape-keyword?") Isn't this blind chance? Adrien. -- Hapy new year