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From: coop@METO.UMD.EDU (James N. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Tab Characters
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Date: 9 Jun 88 13:51:30 GMT
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Scott Ferguson asks:

Is there a way to get actual tab characters from the keyboard?

And the answer is yes.  As he suspected, you have to redefine a key.
Here's the definition:

es '`';al;s/`/@t/;ar

It's kludgy at best.  You insert a ` and then replace the `
with an @t.  It's a tricky problem than it seems at first.  
Maybe someone else has discovered something more elegant.

Jim Cooper
coop@meto.umd.edu