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

[Linda Walsh]

p.s. -- sorry for double post... but the fact that bad-design trumps
user usage steams me.



> 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.
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> 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.
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I.e. do whatever you do to insert a TAB there.  for me, I press TAB,
Others have to work around BASH's unwanted, 4.x behavior.