Re: Bug: tab key no longer bound to org-cycle in commit 565361eb69 [9.4.6 (9.4.6-10-gee652a-elpaplus @ /Users/bartm002/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20210705/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday,  6 Jul 2021 at 18:05, Mark Barton wrote:
>> I normally use C-RET to enter a new headline and then press TAB to
>> make it child headline. Recently it stopped working and I think I have
>> it tracked down to the change that was made last week. I could be
>> missing something that allows “TAB” to work for a kdb binding, but the
>> previous format of "<tab>" works.
>
> I've also found TAB no longer moving from cell to cell in tables.  I use
> evil and now TAB (translated from <tab> according to C-h c) is bound to
> evil-jump-forward.  The only change in my environment has been updating
> org.

Binding <tab> is frowned upon, because it has higher priority than TAB,
and also because it doesn't work everywhere, like in terminals.

If TAB doesn't work properly in Org, then something, e.g., a minor mode
(Evil in the second case), is stealing the binding. I guess you have to
reclaim it back.

Please see (and answer there)
<https://orgmode.org/list/00ca1c7b-1e1d-fc91-eef3-dfc29b51b825@daniel-mendler.de/>

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou