Re: self insert tab in message body

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> writes:

>>>>>> "JH" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>   JH> Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> writes:
>   >> i like to insert hard tabs and now in the message body i get this
>   >> error:
>
>   JH> A work-around is to define your key-binding like this:
>
>   JH> (define-key text-mode-map "\t" 
>   JH>   (lambda (&optional n)
>   JH>     (interactive "p")
>   JH>     (self-insert-command (if n n 1))))
>
> when i get a fresh *mail* buffer it fails as before. i go to .gnus,
> eval it and then it works fine. so some how it it doesn't know how to
> find the text-mode-map? or should i shut down emacs and restart and
> see if that works?

You should put the code snippet in your .emacs file *instead* of the
definition you have now.  Then restart Emacs and see if works.