> Please, I want to sleep nights again.  Can someone shed light on this
> mysterious phenomena?

CaretForm is part of TextConstants, a pool dictionary which has been
emptied in the 1.3 release for mysterious reasons ;-) You can recreate the
TextConstants by doing "Text initialize" which will also bring back
CaretForm.

Hope this helps,
  Andreas
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