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

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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: 24683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24683: 25.1; tab in bibtex
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:58:07 -0400

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.

I suspect that bibtex-find-text is rarely used, since it does
almost the same thing as C-e in most cases.  I would suggest
having tab self-insert, and leaving bibtex-find-text without
a key, or possibly finding a new key combination for bibtex-find-text.


In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.9)
 of 2016-08-30 built on buildvm-06.phx2.fedoraproject.org
System Description:	Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 248 days ago.

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