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Tab canot insert tab space

#1

HOW CAN I INSERT A TAB SPACE?
When the cursor is immediately to right of any typed character and I press tab there is no tab insertion. Instead of a tab insertion, there is:

a popup suggesting html tags beginning with the character left of the cursor, or

a popup suggesting html tags beginning with the first character of any text string containing the character immediately left of cursor.

a[press tab] FAIL
textstring[press tab] FAIL

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In the above screen capture, the line above should have been:

m[tabspace]HTML sidebar index - i gave up trying
sublime text is refusing to type

w[tabspace]HTML page index

The same unwanted popup appears if there is an empty space right of the cursor with the typed craracter immediately to the left, like this:

w [tabspace] HTML page index

Tab keypreess only gives tab space if empty space on left side of cursor. Is this expected? If so can we force the tab keypress to type a tab space using preferences?

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#2

:worried::worried:

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#3 
	// When enabled, pressing tab will insert the best matching completion.
	// When disabled, tab will only trigger snippets or insert a tab.
	// Shift+tab can be used to insert an explicit tab when tab_completion is
	// enabled.
	"tab_completion": true,
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