Re: making TAB in text major mode just work

[Ehud Karni]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:20:07 Bastien wrote:
>
> "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:35:12 jwithers wrote:
> >>
> >> In text mode, or in fundamental mode for that matter, ...
> >>  ... doing a control-q tab isn't really good in my mind.
> >
> > Add this to your .emacs and it will solve your problems for text mode.
> >     (define-key text-mode-map "\011" 'forward-to-tab-stop)
>
> Do you mean:
>
>   (define-key text-mode-map "\011" 'tab-to-tab-stop)
>
> or is `forward-to-tab-stop' a real function?
>
> Here:
>
>   (fboundp 'forward-to-tab-stop)
>   => nil

My mistake, `forward-to-tab-stop' is a very real LOCAL function I use.
I suppose for the above request 'tab-to-tab-stop' or `move-to-tab-stop'
will do. Also change the "\011" to "\t" so:
    (define-key text-mode-map "\t" 'tab-to-tab-stop)


Ehud.


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