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

[Greg Wooledge]

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.

If I press Tab twice in a row there, bash offers to tab-complete against
all the files in the current directory.

Are you perhaps pressing Ctrl-V Tab?  Or have you done funny things with
readline bindings?  Or are you editing .bash_history with a text editor
and then re-invoking bash in order to artificially insert a command
with literal tabs into the shell's history buffer?