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In evil mode, I would like C-i not to work as a tab key, which is the default behavior in Emacs. Also, I would not have the default vi behavior simulated in Emacs evil by evil-jump-forward, but instead I would like to have C-i work as the scroll-down-command.

Then, since C-i is mapped to <tab> by default, and I would like <tab> work as the usual indent-for-tab-command, I need to bind <tab> also. Here is a minimal setup:

(setq package-load-list
      '((evil t)
        (undo-tree t)
        (goto-chg t)))

(package-initialize)
(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-i") 'scroll-down-command)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<tab>") 'indent-for-tab-command)

The problem now is that this seems to confuse org-mode. I think <tab> in org-mode only works correctly if <tab> is not bound, in that case org-mode will rebind it locally to org-cycle.

So now I am not able to expand subtrees in org-mode. In fact, in org-mode the <tab> key is bound to indent-for-tab-command instead of the desired org-cycle command. How to solve this problem?

Note that the solution provided in Emacs, org-mode, evil-mode - TAB key not working does not work, since I rebind the <tab> key.

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It's not 100% clear what you want the tab key to do when you're in org-mode.

What you have done is to bind tab in evil's "global" normal-state keymap. If you're in normal state in an org buffer, tab will do what you bound it to do, not to the default org-cycle.

If you want tab to invoke org-cycle in org buffers when you're in normal state, you can:

(evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "<tab>") #'org-cycle)
Dan
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