How do you insert a tab character in Kate?

Question

Tab and Shift+Tab keys are for indenting and unindenting in the "Normal" indentation mode, which is the default. These are fine and do exactly what I want.

Occasionally it is useful to insert a literal tab character into the document, but I can't figure out how to do it without changing the options each time. Pasting a tab naturally transforms it into four spaces as configured.

I'm using Kate 3.14.9.

Answer 1

Not sure if this works (long time since I used Kate).

Activate VI input mode, Ctrl-V, Tab, Exit VI mode.
Ctrl-V in VI takes the next key typed (Tab in this case) and insert it literally without interpretation.