Norman Ramsey wrote:
> > 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.
AFAIK that is already used in ksh93 to display the version number (for
ksh88, Solaris ksh and ksh93) ... ;-/
And neither bash 2.03.0(1)-release (Solaris 8) nor 3.00.16(1)-release
(i386-pc-solaris2.10) seem to support it... ;-(
... but wait: "vi" mode does not seem to use CTRL-V to output the
version number so - in theory - we could simply alter it to output a
<TAB> in "gmacs" mode...
> > (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).
Just for clarificaton: You mean "\<TAB>" outputs "<TAB>", right ?
That may be the 2nd (CTRL-V is the first one) option (for the "gmacs"
mode, I do not intend to change the "emacs" mode) ...
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