UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

At my old job the TAB key was used in Super User mode rather than the default of the ESC key. I was wondering how to reassign the TAB key so that it acquires the functions of the ESC key.

Thanks for the help.
-Shana

assign teh tab key a new value.

for example when my backspace key does not work properly i do a 'stty erase ^?' the ^? is my backspace key on my keyboard.

yes i would like to reassign the value. what exactly is the syntax to do this. thanks for the help.
-shana

Was the tab key always set to do the work of the Escape key? Or was it in one particular script/application?

What would you do when you needed a tab?

What OS (and version) and what shell did you use at the old job and what at the new?

I know in the bash shell, you can use the tab key to complete a command (or a filename). Is this the type of thing you are looking for?

man stty.

i gave you a clue, now you have to persue it.

NAME
stty - set the options for a terminal
DESCRIPTION
The stty command sets certain terminal I/O options for the
device that is the current standard input; without argu-
ments, it reports the settings of certain options.

I doubt very much that "man stty" will lead anywhere useful.

In a few environments it is possible to exchange the roles of the escape and tab keys completely. I could do it on my X terminal with the keymap editor. And I see that sun has a "pcmapkeys".

But I doubt that the OP really wants to do that.

I think that RTM is on the right track. Most likely the OP has switched from one program to another and the two programs are using different keys for some function.