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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Binding literal tab to C-Tab
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:53:56 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 06 2020, Josh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a need to insert literal tab characters into my org-mode 
> files
> frequently. I would like to bind a key to insert literal tabs 
> (ASCII 9). I
> thought Control-TAB would be a good option. So I inserted the 
> following lines
> into my .emacs file. It works when in normal emacs, but not in 
> org-mode. Is
> there a way to get this to work in org-mode? If this is a bad 
> key combination
> for org-mode, I'm ok switching to another key combo.

Well, C-TAB is already bound in Org (to 
`org-force-cycle-archived`), but if you have no use for that 
command, you can of course rebind it. Since `global-set-key` 
creates global bindings, which are shadowed by local bindings, 
your binding has no effect in Org buffers. You need to bind C-TAB 
in `org-mode-map`:

    (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-<tab>") #'my-insert-tab-char)

HTH

-- 
Joost Kremers
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