You can use <CTRL-V><Tab> in "insert mode". In insert mode, <CTRL-V> inserts a literal copy of your next character.
If you need to do this often, @Dee`Kej suggested (in the comments) setting Shift+Tab to insert a real tab with this mapping:
:inoremap <S-Tab> <C-V><Tab>
Also, as noted by @feedbackloop, on Windows you may need to press <CTRL-Q> rather than <CTRL-V>.
You can disable expandtab option from within Vim as below:
:set expandtab!
or
:set noet
PS: And set it back when you are done with inserting tab, with "set expandtab" or "set et"
PS: If you have tab set equivalent to 4 spaces in .vimrc (softtabstop), you may also like to set it to 8 spaces in order to be able to insert a tab by pressing tab key once instead of twice (set softtabstop=8).
set et and set noet to switch tab and space as need.
From the documentation on expandtab:
To insert a real tab when expandtab is on, use CTRL-V
So if you have a mapping for toggling the paste option, e.g.
set pastetoggle=<F2>
you could also do <F2>Tab<F2>.
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.to repeat the last command if you want to insert multiple tabs.CTRL+Qinstead - see stackoverflow.com/questions/6951672/…inoremap <S-Tab> <C-V><Tab>-- You can put it in your~/.vimrcfile.