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Explain in the tab-always-indent doc how to make TAB insert a TAB

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* lisp/indent.el (tab-always-indent): Mention how to make TAB
insert a TAB character always (bug#37183).
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Lars Ingebrigtsen 2020-09-05 16:40:58 +02:00
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@ -53,7 +53,16 @@ If `complete', TAB first tries to indent the current line, and if the line
was already indented, then try to complete the thing at point.
Some programming language modes have their own variable to control this,
e.g., `c-tab-always-indent', and do not respect this variable."
e.g., `c-tab-always-indent', and do not respect this variable.
If you want the TAB key to always insert a literal TAB character,
this can't be controlled by setting this variable. Instead you
could say something like:
\(setq overriding-terminal-local-map
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
(define-key map [?\t] 'self-insert-command)
map))"
:group 'indent
:type '(choice
(const :tag "Always indent" t)