How to insert a literal tab instead of auto-completing in Jupyter?

Question

It is easy to indent a whole line.

1. Just highlight the whole line and press Tab

2. Go to the start of the line and press Tab

Answer 1

One alternative would be to use the Alt keyboard sequence.
In this case it would be Alt + 09. It is about as short as one could hope for.

For this to work you need a numpad on your keyboard, as the top row of numbers on the keyboard does not work to produce Alt keyboard sequences.

However, this does leave rather ugly arrows in place of the tab, which seems to be the way Jupyter Notebooks displays tab characters.