How to enable the TAB key in Emacs

Question

Use Debian Linux 7 and I’m auditioning with the editor Emacs for code editing. I have done several customizations in the archive .emacs but I can’t make the TAB key work to indent the codes. When I press the TAB key on Emacs, nothing just happens.

Can someone give me some clue on how to enable the TAB key in Emacs?

Answer 1

Following the documentation http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~rlr/Misc/emacs_tabs.htm#one_thing

edit your file . Emacs and add this:

# Tab em todos modos de edicao    
(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command);