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How do one change the behaviour of the <tab> key, from
doing nothing but remove indentation to
actually indent properly ?

Currently I've been using html-helper-mode and everytime
I want to indent, which is quite often, I have to press
m-i or c-q <tab>. I really dislike this behaviour as I'm
used to pressing <tab> when I want to indent.

Python mode works almost the way I like, I just cannot
indent as much as I want.

Is there a way to change this ?

As a Emacs newbie, I really don't know what to do here.


Thanks in advance.


Kristoffer