At 06:05 AM 5/2/03 , Luke Mewburn wrote:
>On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:51:51PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
>  | I was browsing the (n)vi man page and found the filec option. Is
>  | there any way to get the tab key to function as the file completion
>  | char, like in my current shell?
>
>Use
>	set filec=\<TAB>
>where "<TAB>" is a literal tab character
>
>(For some reason, using ^V instead of \ doesn't work for me)
> 

Are you saying it didn't work when you put it in your config file? If so,
try ^V^V^V<TAB>, so that in the file there is a ^V char and a <TAB> char,
not just the <TAB>.

-Tim