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

[Daniel Jensen]

poppyer <poppyer@gmail.com> writes:

> daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:
>
>> 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
>
> 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.

There is no such hook. It might be possible to create a global minor
mode to do it, or to use keyboard translations, but I haven't tried to
do that. The quickest solution that comes to mind is to put an advice on
use-local-map:

(defadvice use-local-map (after swap-bindings-in-local-map activate)
  (swap-indent-bindings))

I wouldn't do this. It's really ugly and it messes with modes that use
TAB for something unrelated to text indenting. I suggest you stick with
explicitly changing the modes that you want to change.