Echo area/minibuffer display inconsistancy?

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From: Eric Hanchrow
Date: Thu, 17 May 1990 21:38

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GNU Emacs 18.55.2 of Sun Nov 26 1989 on yamada-sun (berkeley-unix).

If I do
	M-x isearch-forward TAB
I see that tab character displayed at the bottom of my screen as a
caret followed by an I.

But if I do
	M-x re-search-forward TAB
I see the tab displayed as some white space.

Is this reasonable?
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Subject: Echo area/minibuffer display inconsistancy?
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