Re: global-set-key [tab] doesn't work

[Andreas Roehler]

Robin Wilson wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm sorry to keep asking questions, but I can't seem to find
> the answers to most of these things elsewhere, and you've been
> very helpful so far. As I said - after learning all of that
> hopefully I'll be able to help other people.
> 
> Basically in my .emacs file I have the following lines:
> 
> (global-set-key [tab] 'indent-or-complete)
> (global-set-key [C-z] 'undo)
> 
> but neither of these work when used in a buffer. If I type, for
> example, (def and press TAB it does nothing, but if I do M-x
> indent-or-complete it completes it to (defun. TAB however does
> indent properly when used on a blank line. I'm guessing from
> this that the binding hasn't been set properly - but I'm not
> sure how I set it properly! I've copied the bindings I've used
> for Function Keys (F1, F2 etc) and assume it's the same syntax.
> 
> The same thing occurs with C-z binding to undo. If I do M-x
> global-set-key and then press C-z and type undo it works fine.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Robin

So it would work here:

(global-set-key (kbd "<tab>") 'beginning-of-buffer)