Re: self insert tab in message body

[Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>]

>>>>> "JH" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

  JH> 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" (lambda (&optional n) (interactive
  JH> "p") (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?

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

it still doesn't work. i get the same error. i tried to make it a global
key with just insert-string (since i want tab to insert by default) and
it is trying the old function. i think i have to restart emacs as it
seems to cache the function definition. this is most annoying.

uri

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