On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:51:23AM -0400, Timothy A. Musson wrote:
  | 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>.

Actually, IIRC, I couldn't get vi do DTRT when I used this as a direct
command (versus just adding it to .exrc), whereas \ works in both cases.