GNU bug report logs - #24683
25.1; tab in bibtex

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Gildea <gildea <at> cs.rochester.edu>

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:59:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daniel Gildea <gildea <at> cs.rochester.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24683: 25.1; tab in bibtex
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:38:07 -0400

On Thu, October 13, 2016 at 10:10AM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 2016-10-13 09:58, Daniel Gildea wrote:
> > This is a request to change one of the default key bindings in
> > bibtex mode.  TAB is bound to bibtex-find-text.  This causes an
> > error when pasting text containing a tab character into a
> > terminal-based emacs.  Tab characters are often used for
> > formating in bibtex files, in particular in the output of the
> > conversion utility bibutils.
> 
> Does your terminal not support bracket paste?
> 

Cool, I didn't know about that!  Enabling bracket paste
in my .emacs solves the problem.  It would still be nice to have
it work by default, either by changing the TAB binding or by
making bracket paste on by default.

Thanks.
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