bug#73951: 29.4; 'what-cursor-position' reports SPC instead of TAB in term-mode

[Toomas Rosin]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Did you try setting indent-tabs-mode to a non-nil value?

How could I not have thought of this!  But yes, when I set `indent-tabs-mode' 
to `t' *before* pasting the function definition, and then run "type tawk" in 
terminal buffer and move point in line mode onto the tab character, `C-x =' 
says correctly that point is on TAB.

I had `indent-tabs-mode' set to `nil' globally in my init.el; now I see that it 
is a good idea to leave `indent-tabs-mode' to `t' in terminal mode.

I have no more questions.  Thank you.

T.