Re: TAB key isn't bound to org-cycle with emacs on console

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB key isn't bound to org-cycle with emacs on console
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:17:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65bdce56daecf4a9b037d952ebbafed7@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d54kpupt.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de>

On Feb 8, 2007, at 15:52, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use Org since about 2 month and I really enjoy it. Normally I use
> GNU/Emacs with its X11 interface, but today I noticed that TAB is not
> bound to `org-cycle' when I use emacs -nw or emacs in a login
> shell. Then it's bound to the function I local-set-key it in
> fundamental-mode-hook.
>
> ,----[ grep -A2 fundamental-mode-hook ~/.emacs ]
> | (add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook
> |           (lambda ()
> |             (local-set-key "\C-i" 'th-complete-or-indent)))
> `----
>
> When I do M-x org-cycle emacs echoes that I can run this function with
> <tab>, too.

First of all, not all terminal programs can distinguish between the TAB 
key and C-i - obviously yours cannot.  I am not sure if this can be 
fixed with som setup - you need to look into documentation on terminal 
windows for this.

If you cannot fix this,  you need to have org-cycle bound to C-i in 
order to get it executed by TAB.

The problem is that you do the above binding in a hook, and that you 
use local-set-key to do it.  Local-set-key defines the key in the 
current local map, which in org-mode is org-mode-map.  
Fundamental-mode-hook seems to be run (I did not know this!) when 
org-mode is started, because org-mode is derived from outline-mode, 
which is derived from text-mode which is derived from fundamental-mode, 
so all these hooks are run!

Here is what you can do:

1. Did you really intend to have this key binding in all modes, or did 
you only want it in fundamental mode?

If you only need it in, say, fundamental-mode and in text-mode, you 
could do

(define-key fundamental-mode-map "\C-i" th-......)
(define-key text-mode-map "\C-i" th-......)

2. If you really meant to have this in all modes except org-mode, you 
can make org-mode-hook (which runs after fundamental-mode-hook) to 
overrule this binding again.

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
           (lambda ()
              (local-set-key "\C-i" 'th-complete-or-indent)))

3. You could make th-complete-or-indent smarter so that it calls 
org-cycle when you are in org-mode.

Hope this helps

- Carsten

>
> Does anyone suspect what could be the culprit?
>
> BTW: I use Org-mode-4.64.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is
> beautiful.  -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
>
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