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bug#20904: If global-set-key is used to rebind <tab>, searching for a TA
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20904: If global-set-key is used to rebind <tab>, searching for a TAB character inserts a TAB |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:32:35 +0300 |
> From: Fran Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:00:34 +0000 (UTC)
>
> I <flitterio <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2. Evaluate this form:
> >
> > (global-set-key (kbd "<tab>") 'tab-to-tab-stop)
>
> I have found that changing the above form to:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'tab-to-tab-stop)
>
> avoids the problem (i.e., it allows the global binding of TAB to be
> changed to tab-to-tab-stop and allows searching for a TAB character).
That's exactly what you should have done. <tab> is a function key,
not the character Ctrl-I.