Re: DWIM for the TAB key

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Oliver Scholz wrote:
> Reading a thread on emacs-devel, I thought that maybe others would
> also like what I have been using for quite a while:
>
> (defun egoge-tab-dwim ()
>   "Indent or complete depending on the context.
> If point is at the beginning of a line or if all characters
> between point and the beginning of the line are whitespace
> characters, indent that line. Otherwise complete the symbol at
> point."
>   (interactive)

This code doesn't seem to do what the comments say it should.

>   (if (or (bolp)
>           (save-excursion (backward-char 1)
>                           (looking-at "[[:blank:]]")))

    (if (save-excursion (skip-syntax-backward "-")
                        (bolp))

>       (indent-according-to-mode)
>     (if (memq major-mode '(emacs-lisp-mode
>                            lisp-interaction-mode
>                            inferior-emacs-lisp-mode))
>         (lisp-complete-symbol)
>       (complete-symbol))))
>
> (define-key global-map [tab] 'egoge-tab-dwim)
>
>     Oliver
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