Help - TAB annoying keeps getting set to 'previous-line ??

Help - TAB annoying keeps getting set to 'previous-line ??

[-ph7]

I'm new to emacs (and hating it so far) and want to change some key binds
around so that it's not so awful. 
However, after I started remapping some keys in my .emacs file, my TAB key
keeps acting funny.

I changed C-i to 'previous-line and C-k to 'next-line, now every time I hit
tab it runs 'previous-line. When I delete the line "(global-set-key (kbd
"C-i") 'aquamacs-previous-line)" TAB works fine, so I know this is the
problem

Help?  I have tried stupid things like changing 'aquamacs-previous-line to
just 'previous-line, using escape charactesr like "\C-i" and ?\C-i, ect...

I am using Aquamacs and here is my current .emacs file: 

(global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 'shell)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-i") 'aquamacs-previous-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'backward-word)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'forward-word)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-k") 'aquamacs-next-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-l") 'forward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-j") 'backward-char)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-u") 'aquamacs-move-beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-o") 'aquamacs-move-end-of-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-d") 'scroll-up)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-e") 'scroll-down)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-'") 'recenter-top-bottom) 

(global-set-key (kbd "C-n") 'kill-line)

;;; I prefer cmd key for meta
(setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil
     mac-command-key-is-meta t
     mac-command-modifier 'meta
     mac-option-modifier 'none)




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Re: Help - TAB annoying keeps getting set to 'previous-line ??

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-07-14 09:15, -ph7 wrote:
>
> I'm new to emacs (and hating it so far) and want to change some key binds
> around so that it's not so awful.
> However, after I started remapping some keys in my .emacs file, my TAB key
> keeps acting funny.
>
> I changed C-i to 'previous-line and C-k to 'next-line, now every time I hit
> tab it runs 'previous-line. When I delete the line "(global-set-key (kbd
> "C-i") 'aquamacs-previous-line)" TAB works fine, so I know this is the
> problem
>
> Help?  I have tried stupid things like changing 'aquamacs-previous-line to
> just 'previous-line, using escape charactesr like "\C-i" and ?\C-i, ect...
>
> I am using Aquamacs and here is my current .emacs file:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 'shell)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-i") 'aquamacs-previous-line)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'backward-word)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'forward-word)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-k") 'aquamacs-next-line)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-l") 'forward-char)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-j") 'backward-char)
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-u") 'aquamacs-move-beginning-of-line)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-o") 'aquamacs-move-end-of-line)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-d") 'scroll-up)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-e") 'scroll-down)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-'") 'recenter-top-bottom)
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-n") 'kill-line)
>
> ;;; I prefer cmd key for meta
> (setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil
>       mac-command-key-is-meta t
>       mac-command-modifier 'meta
>       mac-option-modifier 'none)
>

"TAB" is the same as "C-i" in a terminal and there is no way to 
distinguish them there.  In "GUI" Emacs (I'm not sure Aquamacs is GUI, I 
haven't used it), you can distinguish the two by binding C-i to one 
thing and TAB to another.

(global-set-key (kbd "C-i") 'wassup-dawg)
(global-set-key (kbd "<tab>") 'why-hello-there)

Hope that helps,
Deniz

Re: Help - TAB annoying keeps getting set to 'previous-line ??

[Tassilo Horn]

-ph7 <ryanexile@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm new to emacs (and hating it so far) and want to change some key
> binds around so that it's not so awful.

That's the right first sentence to make friends in an emacs group. :-)

> However, after I started remapping some keys in my .emacs file, my TAB
> key keeps acting funny.
>
> I changed C-i to 'previous-line and C-k to 'next-line, now every time
> I hit tab it runs 'previous-line.

Are you running emacs in a terminal?  In that case, C-i and TAB are the
same (C-i is the ASCII escape characted for TAB).

Have a look at:

,----[ (info "(emacs)Named ASCII Chars") ]
|    With an ordinary ASCII terminal, there is no way to distinguish
| between <TAB> and `C-i' (and likewise for other such pairs), because
| the terminal sends the same character in both cases.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo

RE: Help - TAB annoying keeps getting set to 'previous-line ??

[Drew Adams]

C-i and TAB are the same ASCII control character.

But see the Emacs manual, main menu, this entry:

* Named ASCII Chars  Distinguishing <TAB> from C-i, and so on.