Re: Separate bindings for the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-i and TAB.

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>:

> Am 17.09.2007 um 10:49 schrieb Nordlöw:
>
>> The reason is that I want Ctrl-i to indent as usual
>> and TAB to do completion (hippie-expand) instead.
>
> By law (ASCII, ISO 8859, Unicode, and proprietary standards) both are
> the same.
>
> In X11 you can map whatever to the TAB key.

In X11 the <tab> key is, by default, mapped to the TAB character
(ASCII 9).  This is done in function-key-map, so to map <tab> and C-i
to different keys, the sensible ting would be to remove the <tab>
translation from function-key-map, then rebind it to whatever you
wish.  Note, however, that since function-key-map is a global map,
applied before any other key processing, this will have side effects
in /every/ mode, not just where you wanted separate definitions.  You
could circumvent this in various hackish ways, I suppose, like binding
<tab> in the global keymap to a function that looks up C-i in the
current keymaps and executes the result.  But I don't know enough
about event handling in emacs to tell you what the gotchas of such an
approach might be.  Maybe you could bind <tab> to a macro that runs
C-i?  Might be worth a try.

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