On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ludwig, Mark<ludwig.mark@siemens.com>wrote:
If you just want it to insert a TAB character every time, just map the key
to self-insert-command.
Yes I gathered that this is the only way (or C-q TAB). Seems fairly
low-level for such a basic usage...
Are you familiar with M-i that runs tab-to-tab-stop? That might be what
you want, too, especially if you want spaces inserted to 'equal' what the
TAB character would do on a typewriter, for instance.
I need tab to be entered as tab without any questions or ambiguity (think
makefiles?)
Hope this helps,
Mark
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org [mailto:
help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
Rustom Mody
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:45 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: tab character
The tab-always-indent docs say:
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Controls the operation of the TAB key.
If t, hitting TAB always just indents the current line.
If nil, hitting TAB indents the current line if point is at the left margin
or in the line's indentation, otherwise it inserts a \"real\" TAB
character.
If `complete', TAB first tries to indent the current line, and if the line
was already indented, then try to complete the thing at point.
Some programming language modes have their own variable to control this,
e.g., `c-tab-always-indent', and do not respect this variable."
:group 'indent
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Why is there nothing stronger than nil? IOW why is it so hard to just have
tab be tab with no conditions?