Command-line client sometimes misinterprets tabs for nulls

Let's say I have typed a nice formatted SQL statement like so:

select b1.blah,
b1.blah2,
b2.blah3
from blah_table as b1
inner join only blah_table2 as b2
on b1.blah = b2.blah;

...using tabs as the indenting medium. Now I copy that from my editor into
psql, and most of the tabs are converted to nulls, resulting in an error like
"Unknown value fromblah_table". Tabs should paste; they're normal
characters.

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