In both the Visual Studio emacs mode and the default mode the tab key is bound to Edit.InsertTab. However, in the emacs mode the tab button jumps to where it expects the next line to start instead of inserting a tab.
Is there a way to disable this ‘smart insert’ while keeping the emacs key bindings?
Man, I found it for you :))) In customization of keyboard shortcuts it is Edit.IncreaseLineIndent.
Set your own key and be happy. (BTW, I cannot set the Tab key explicitly. Even changing CurrentSettings.vssettings did not help. But it is different story…)