Re: Getting the TAB key for filename completion

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Davin Pearson wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>:
>> And redefining it works for me.  Are you sure `keyboard-quit' is the
>> command you mean?
> 
> Evaluate the following code:
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-q" 'keyboard-quit)
> 
> Then do a C-x C-e on the following form:
> 
> (while t)
> 
> You will see that the only way to break out of the infinite loop is to
> press C-g.  Note that C-q doesn't work in spite of the above binding
> of C-q.  I assume that the reason C-q doesn't work is because of a
> design oversight of the creators of Emacs.
> 
> 

(set-input-mode x y z ?\C-q)


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