> Actually bash does not seem to provide a way to enter a TAB character at
> all
In bash, you enter a tab character by quoting with Ctl-V.
> (neither in "vi" nor in "emacs" mode) - and maybe we want to make
> "gmacs" behave the same way (in favour of more powerfull TAB completion
> which is available all the time ("emacs" and "vi" mode should still
> allow people to enter a TAB, I am just thinking loudly how the "gmacs"
> mode may have better than it's today)).
Some quoting mechanism is needed. I'm happy with the current
mechanism, in which a tab entered immediately following a backslash
become a literal tab (eating the backslash).
Norman
