Re: TAB for non-editing modes

[Bastien]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> Especially a key such as `TAB', which has important associations and uses in
> other contexts:
>
> - `TAB' is used for indenting, which can be context-dependent. Someday
> perhaps we will have a notion of indenting for Dired. (No idea what such
> indentation might mean - perhaps for inserted subdirs?)
>
> - `TAB' is used for completion - both minibuffer and buffer text. Someday
> perhaps we will have some notion of "completing" a file or directory entry
> in Dired. (No idea what such completion might mean.)
>
> - `TAB' is used for field navigation (particularly outside Emacs), as
> Lennart mentioned. Someday perhaps we will have fields of some sort in
> Dired.

Add to this list:

- `TAB' is used to cycle through folding states in Org-mode (only when
  the point is at the beginning of a headline).

If dired-mode were able to (un)fold directories *in the same window*
then `TAB' would be the key of choice.

-- 
Bastien