sort with a tab as separator

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Wed Aug 22 02:18:18 AEST 1990


In article <1990Aug21.022525.3006 at midway.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo at gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>Improved: it is command-line and history editing via Emacs commands that
>probably screws up some of this. I am VERY GLAD that the NeXT csh has this
>feature. It makes life much more pleasant. In fact, I wouldn't even consider a
>shell without this feature.

There is absolutely no reason why the fact that a shell has editing
facilities should cause it to substitute spaces for tabs.  If the NeXT
csh does this then it's just plain wrong.

-- Richard
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