> > ASCII has has 33 control characters, among which tab and esc. These can be 
> > typed in your terminal through control-something. For example, CTRL-I is 
> > tab, CTRL-[ is escape, CTRL-H is backspace (destructive) and CTRL-M is 
> > enter. This is not really a solution to all the problems, but at least you 
> > can type tabs without the on screen keyboard.
> 
> This is not exact. It might work in a terminal emulator, but it is not a 
> universal thing. Tab and Esc are useful in a lot of programs (such as Esc for 
> stop current page loading in a browser, and inserting a Tab in a word 
> processor), and there those CTRL characters do not replace them.

I didn't claim it was a universal thing. It works in a terminal.
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