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

[Linda Walsh]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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?
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        Actually I think I just hit ESC-v and re-edited the text
that way.  Thinking about it -- if I am doing a 'one-liner in the shell,
I often don't use indentation and sometimes semi's instead of LF's.  But
when I put the whole thing up on a screen because my one-liner didn't work,
I'll usually indent it to make it clear.

        Then I just exit -- no artificial insertions or reinvoking bash..