How to insert TAB without triggering autocomplete?

[janxkoci]

Is there a way to insert the TAB character after some word, without triggering autocomplete that cycles through words in the text starting with the current word?

For example Sublime Text uses Shift+Tab to insert TAB without triggering autocomplete. However, this shortcut has no effect in micro. I did not find any other shortcut for this job either.

Sometimes, I need to write e.g. config files which have TAB-delimited columns to set paths, parameters, variables etc. I keep running into a problem when I write a column and want to insert TAB to start writing in new column, but micro instead cycles through variables starting with the same text as the column I just finished.

Consider this example from legofit docs:

time fixed    Tn=1897          # time of Neanderthal admixture
time free     Txyn=25920       # archaic-modern separation time
time free     Txy=3788         # Africa-Eurasia separation time

twoN free         twoNn=1e3            # archaic population size
twoN constrained twoNxy=1e4 - 1.2*Txy  # early modern population size

Here, the last line starts with a parameter type twoN, followed by a TAB, but after pressing the TAB key micro starts to offer autocomplete to twoNn, which is a parameter name defined at the previous line. In this case it might be avoided by choosing different prefix, but I still think micro should have a way to just insert TAB whenever I need.

[bartgrantham]

(Greetings from a fellow bioinformaticist!)

You'll need to add an entry in your bindings.json. The key combo you're talking about is referred to as BackTab in micro (not ShiftTab as I expected), and by default it's set to:

    "Backtab": "OutdentSelection|OutdentLine"

If you're ok remapping that to always inserting a plain tab you'll need to add this entry:

    "Backtab": "InsertTab"

More information about bindings here: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/help/keybindings.md