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When I’m in insert mode and I have the expandtab option switched on, pressing Tab ↹ results in inserting the configured number of spaces.
But occasionally I want to insert an actual tab character.
Do you know how to do this?
You can use
<CTRL-V><Tab>in “insert mode”. In insert mode,<CTRL-V>inserts a literal copy of your next character.If you need to do this often, @Dee`Kej suggested (in the comments) setting Shift+Tab to insert a real tab with this mapping:
Also, as noted by @feedbackloop, on Windows you may need to press
<CTRL-Q>rather than<CTRL-V>.