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Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?

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by: Luc - Mon, 3 Apr 2023 23:05 UTC

Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?

It's a default. I didn't add that binding.

Seems like a bad idea to me.

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by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Mon, 3 Apr 2023 23:36 UTC

In article <20230403200554.46b24924@lud1.home>, Luc <luc@sep.invalid> wrote:
>Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?
>
>It's a default. I didn't add that binding.
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>Seems like a bad idea to me.
>
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>Luc
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>

Ctrl-I *is* the tab character the same way Ctrl-M is the carriage return
character.
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by: Luc - Tue, 4 Apr 2023 00:28 UTC

> Ctrl-I *is* the tab character the same way Ctrl-M is the carriage return
> character.

Oh.

I knew about Ctrl-m, but for some reason never knew about Ctrl-i.

I have found the way to block it.

Thank you for the info.

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Subject	Author
Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?	Luc
Re: Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?	ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
Re: Why does Ctrl+i produce tabs in text widgets?	Luc