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)