Re: swapping the bindings of TAB and M-i ?

[poppyer]

Thanks daniel, that is exactly what I want.

However, is there something like any-major-mode-hook? That would be a
perfect solution adding to this.

daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> poppyer <poppyer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >     I would like to swap TAB and M-i, i.e.
> > use TAB to do tab-to-tab-stop; and M-i to indent codes.
> > However, the "indent" of current TAB binding is mode-specific.
> > Is there any easy way to do such kind of swap without re-bind the keys
> > mode by mode?
> 
> You can add the following function to the hooks for the major modes you
> want to change. There are ways to do this for every mode, but you
> probably don't want to do that.
> 
> (defun swap-indent-bindings ()
>   (let ((tab-binding (key-binding "\C-i")))
>     (local-set-key "\C-i" (key-binding "\M-i"))
>     (local-set-key "\M-i" tab-binding)))
> 
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'swap-indent-bindings) ; and so on

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