Visual Studio Code Tab Key does not insert a tab

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I m using Visual Studio Code as my code editor  I did a search on google but wasn t able to find anything about my issue  The issue is simple  pressing   Tab in the editor does nothing  I m expecting it to insert 4 spaces  Anyone know what I can do to get   Tab working like expected

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Maybe another program is interfering  Closing Teamviewer fixed the problem for me

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Make sure this is NOT checked          Tools   Options   Text Editor   C C     Formatting   Automatic Indentation On Tab  Let me know if this helped

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To fix the issue Pressing ctrl M  causes the   Tab  key to move focus instead of inserting a   Tab  character  Turn it off by pressing the shortcut again  To disable the shortcut  Open  quot Keyboard Shortcuts quot  with ctrl K  then ctrl S  Or go to File  gt  Preferences  gt  Keyboard Shortcuts  Search for toggle tab key moves focus  Right Click  Remove Keybinding

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I ve had this happen before as well  where there was TeamViewer client takes the control of the TAB key  You won t know this until you close the TV window that you have open in the background

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Try  CTR   M it will work like before

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For those of you not about that space bar life  -   -    -   -    Keybinding for   Tab  isn t set to anything so you have to do it manually  Navigate to Preferences Environment Keybindings and search for  tab   Click on Edit Binding at the bottom and press the tab key   Press  Apply  then  Ok   Key bound

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Click on the explorer or any other window that is not the editor then press Ctrl   Shift  for Mac only    M  this is the command to  quot Toggle Tab Key Moves Focus quot  on the Keyboard Shortcuts

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In  my case I followed this advice and changed this emmet setting in vscode to false    emmet triggerExpansionOnTab   false   I was receinving the error Cannot read property  value  of null  It solved the problem immediatelly

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Not sure what operating system you re on  but there was a known issue with the tab key on one of the more recent releases of VS Code for Mac OS X  The bug has been fixed in the latest release  0 10 9    On Mac OS X  you can check for the latest update by opening VS Code and then going to  Code   Check for Updates    Sources and more information    https   code visualstudio com Updates

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I had accidentally enabled a different mode for the tab key  Fixed it by pressing Ctrl Shift for Mac only  M  From the Visual Studio Code Keybinding docs     Key        Command                                   Command id                           Ctrl   M   Toggle Use of Tab Key for Setting Focus   editor action toggleTabFocusMode     The current tab control mode should also show up in the status bar

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All the above failed for me  But I noticed shift      Tab  worked as expected  outdenting the line    So I looked for the  Indent Line  shortcut  which was assigned to alt   ctrl    cmd    0    assigned it to tab  and now I m happy again   Next morning edit     I also use tab to accept snippet suggestions  so I ve set the  when  of  Indent Line  to editorTextFocus  amp  amp   editorReadonly  amp  amp   inSnippetMode  amp  amp   suggestWidgetVisible

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Click  quot Tab Moves Focus quot  at the bottom right in the status bar  I believe I had clicked on ctrl M  When doing this  the  quot Tab Moves Focus quot  tab button showed up at the bottom right  Clicking on that makes it go away and starts working again

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I am using code on xfce - did the following to fix the Tab key behavior   File -  Preferences -  Settings  search for  keyboard dispatch   copy to right panel and change value from  code  to  keyCode   Reload code

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As of December 2018 on macOS Mojave 10 14 2 using VSCode 1 29 1 the default keybinding for  Toggle Tab Key Moves Focus  is set to Command Shift M   If you got stuck with this  using that key combo should fix the issue     Do Command K Command S to pull up the Hotkeys Settings and then search for Toggle Tab Key Moves Focus or editor action toggleTabFocusMode if you want to change the key combo

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Edit  This answer is for MSVS  the IDE  as opposed to VS Code   It seems Microsoft and Google go out of their way to choose confusing names for new products  I ll leave this answer here for now  while I  continue to  look for the equivalent stackoverflow question about MSVS  Let me know in the comments if you think I should delete it  Or better  point me to the MSVS version of this question   I installed MSVS 2017 recently  None of the suggestions I ve seen fixed the problem  The solution I figured out works for MSVS 2015 and 2017  Add a comment below if you find that it works for other versions   Under Tools -  Options -  Text Editor -  C C   -  Formatting -  General  try unchecking the  Automatically indent when I type a tab  box  It seems counter intuitive  but it fixed the problem for me

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