RE: tab character

[Buchs, Kevin]

Whenever I want to insert a few literal tabs, I just escape it with C-q Tab. If 
I want to have tabs every time in a particular file, I will turn on this 
true-tab-mode I created:

(defvar true-tab-mode-map
  (let ( (map (make-sparse-keymap)) )  ; sparse keymap copies the existing one
    (define-key map "\t" 'self-insert-command)
    map) ; return the value of the let clause, which is map from this line
 "Keymap for `true-tab-mode'.")

(define-derived-mode true-tab-mode text-mode "text TrueTab"
" Major mode based on text mode, just reassigns the TAB key to do
an insertion of a tab.  Key map: \\{true-tab-mode-map}")



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