Dear list, I'd like to be able to expand words and symbols by pressing the tab key in insert mode. I tried this method: (vimpulse-imap [(tab)] 'vimpulse-abbrev-expand-before) But when I press tab in insert mode after evaluating this nothing happens. I'm was running emacs -nw. The strange thing is that it does work when I run emacs with the graphical user interface (GNU Emacs 23.1.1 from Ubuntu lucid). Any ideas about what is going on here and how I can fix it? The other problem I'm having is that C-v does not activate block selection but inserts text. I'd be happy about any suggestion! Here's my init.el, not much going on there: (require 'slime) (setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/sbcl") (slime-setup) (load "~/.emacs.d/vimpulse.el") (setq-default fill-column 80) (mouse-wheel-mode t) (setq auto-fill-mode 1) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) (xterm-mouse-mode t) ;; tab expands (vimpulse-imap [(tab)] 'vimpulse-abbrev-expand-before) ;; cycle buffer as in chrome (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") 'next-buffer) (global-set-key (kbd "C-<prior>") 'previous-buffer) Sorry, for these basic questions. I just switched to emacs after having used vim for 10 years. I'm a bit lost. Titus