Inserting a literal tab

[lencioni]

It would be nice if there was an easy way to insert a literal tab instead of triggering auto completion. Other editors have solved this problem by binding <Shift> + <Tab> to insert a literal tab.

[skeept]

If you desire that behavior just put in your .vimrc

:inoremap pumvisible() ? "" : ""

this way you still use tab for completion and if you are already in the
midle of a a completion you can use to go back and forth in the
completion options, but if you are just typing, then hitting shift-tab will
just insert a tab.

On second though, the .vimrc file may not be the correct place to put the
above line, you may have to create a file in .vim/after/plugin and put that
line there (the name doesn't really matter) so that file is sourced after
all the plugins are sourced.

Note that supertab does have a variable that you can set in your .vimrc
that specifies the mapping you would use to insert a literal tab:
g:SuperTabMappingTabLiteral.
The default value for this is ctrl-tab which is pretty close to shift-tab.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Joe Lencioni notifications@github.comwrote:

It would be nice if there was an easy way to insert a literal tab instead
of triggering auto completion. Other editors have solved this problem by
binding + to insert a literal tab.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/49.

[ervandew]

It would be nice if there was an easy way to insert a literal tab instead of triggering auto completion. Other editors have solved this problem by binding <Shift> + <Tab> to insert a literal tab.

<S-Tab> is used for scrolling through the completions in reverse. You can set g:SuperTabMappingTabLiteral to define your own mapping for inserting a literal tab. Note that the default for g:SuperTabMappingTabLiteral (<c-tab>) doesn't work for vim in the terminal because of limitations w/ vim's character input when running in a terminal.