elpy and evil-mode do not react on TAB

Mon Nov 2 22:31:27 CET 2020

A side not: The problem appears with "emacs" and "emacs -nw".

On 2020-11-02 22:26 <c.buhtz at posteo.jp> wrote:
> X-Post:
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/61497/12999
> and
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2020-11/msg00061.html
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my problem is that the TAB key does nothing in elpy (python) mode and
> evil-mode also.
> 
> This is my elpy-config
> 
> >  1Elpy
> >  Configuration
> >  2 3Virtualenv........:
> >  None 4RPC Python........: 3.7.3
> >  (/usr/bin/python3) 5Interactive Python: /usr/bin/python3
> >  (/usr/bin/python3) 6Emacs.............:
> >  26.1 7Elpy..............:
> >  1.28.0 8Jedi..............:
> >  0.17.2 9Rope..............: Not
> >  found 10Autopep8..........:
> >  1.5.3 11Yapf..............: Not
> >  found 12Black.............: Not
> >  found 13Syntax checker....: flake8 (/usr/local/bin/flake8)      
> 
> It runs on Debian 10.
> 
> When typing TAB nothing happens. No message. No change in the mode
> line or status line. I would expect 4 empty chars when typing TAB.
> 
>  M-x describe-key TAB results in
> 
> > TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command evil-jump-forward
> > (found in evil-motion-state-map), which is an interactive compiled
> > Lisp function in
> > ‘~/.MyAppData/emacs.d/elpa/evil-20201014.2043/evil-commands.el’.
> > 
> > It is bound to TAB.
> > 
> > (evil-jump-forward &optional COUNT)
> > 
> > Go to newer position in jump list.
> > To go the other way, press C-o.    
> 
> I have evil-mode installed and activated. So there must be a reason
> why TAB is used by evil-mode but do not work.
> 
> btw: I am quite new to emacs.
> 
> kind
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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