How to insert <TAB> after word?

[funny-falcon]

Our coding standard require to insert after type name on variable/field declaration:

struct A {
  size_t/*TAB here*/fsize;
  size_t/*and I try to type it here*/
};

When I type size_t autocompletion window pops up, and starts choose of variants, and I don't get how to insert just itself.

Can you help me?

[kirawi]

Do C-c to close the popup and then try to insert with S-tab. (By default, pressing tab when not at the whitespace beginning of a line will use smart-tab behavior where the cursor will jump to the end of the current syntax node. But this can be overridden as shown in https://docs.helix-editor.com/editor.html#editorsmart-tab-section)

[funny-falcon]

Yes, looks like.

Still is it possible to completely unmap Tab from variant choosing (without enabling smart-tab, which I found very confusing as well, so disabled it)?

[kirawi]

Hmm. You can try to reenable smart-tab, enable editor.smart-tab.supersede-menu and bind tab = "insert_tab". A PR to make supersede-menu work without having smart-tab enabled might be a good idea too though.