This is driving me crazy. I have a text field that I have absolutely no interest in ever entering an actual tab character into. I want Tab to shift the focus to the next widget, but I cannot get this to work. I have the following code:
my $t1 = $mw->Text(
       -background=>"navy",
       -foreground=>"white",
       -height=>35,
       -width=>80,
       -wrap=>"word",
       -selectbackground=>"blueviolet"
       );
my $e2 = $mw->Entry(
       -background=>"navy",
       -foreground=>"white",
       -width=>80,
       -textvariable=>\$description,
       -selectbackground=>"blueviolet"
       );
$t1->bind("<Tab>", sub { $e2->focus });

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Now I have replaced Tab with Ctrl-q, and then when I Ctrl-q I get a control character printed, and the desired focus shift. But when I go back to Tab, I get a tab, and no focus shift. What do I have to do to rebind Tab to my wishes? If it's not possible to rebind Tab, how do I bind a character without the character printing in my Text field?

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In reply to re-binding Tab in a TK Text field by wolfger

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