From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Fran Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
Cc: 20904@debbugs.gnu.org
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 15:42:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlhf6s1fn.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150626T185826-924@post.gmane.org> (Fran Litterio's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:00:34 +0000 (UTC)")
tags 20904 notabug
thanks
>> (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 right.
Most of Emacs (including Isearch) gives no special meaning to `tab', and
instead this key is typically remapped to TAB.
So unless you care about the difference between the two, you should
always bind the TAB and not `tab'.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-26 16:48 bug#20904: If global-set-key is used to rebind <tab>, searching for a TAB character inserts a TAB Fran Litterio
2015-06-26 17:00 ` Fran Litterio
2015-06-26 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-06-26 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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