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Re: bash doesn't display tabs for tabs -- ignores tabstops.


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: Re: bash doesn't display tabs for tabs -- ignores tabstops.
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:31:17 -0700
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Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:54:35AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> Type in this:
>> echo 'while read fn;do
>> <tab>d=${fn%.zip}
> 
> This is where I lose you completely.  If I press Tab where you indicate,
> nothing happens at all.
---
But that is an empty line -- TAB 'should' be inserted here, but due
to changes in 4.0, empty line really means empty input -- which it isn't.

To deal with that My autocomplete is set to backquote so I can insert
TAB normally.



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