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From: composer@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Jeff Kellem)
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Subject: Bash 1.01 IFS doesn't seem to...
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Date: 17 Jul 89 22:23:11 GMT
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|   Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 15:38:20 EDT
|   From: bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd)
|
|   Also, while typing this in I stumbled across a *really* minor annoyance;
|   routinely, when entering interactive loops, I attempt to indent the loop
|   bodies (which provides me the same readability advantages it offers in
|   more conventional programming contexts). Bash hangs on the command line
|   when ^I is the first character entered, until I hit ^C. Would it be too
|   much work to disable the completion function of ^I when ^I is the first
|   character entered on a line?

Well, all you really need to do is use whatever key sequence is bound to
the function 'tab-insert'.  By default, this is Meta-I (or ESC-I).  You 
can always change it to some other key sequence by editing your ~/.inputrc
file.  Enjoy...

                        -jeff

Jeff Kellem
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