Tab key doesn't always work in the search bar

[Ka0t1k]

Description

When using the search bar to search for text, if the preceding text is a letter or number it doesn't add a tab character

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Sublime Text
2. Open the search
3. enter a string of alphanumeric in the search
4. press tab

Expected behavior

a tab character to be inserted in the search field

Actual behavior

no tab character is inserted in the search field

Environment

• 4107
• macOS Big Sur 11.4

Other test cases

if the final character is a space or seemingly any other symbol then a tab is inserted in the search field

[deathaxe]

I see that happening in normal editor conrol, too.

Hitting tab key after a word triggers auto_complete {"default": "\t", "mini": true}, which doesn't fall back to insert \t if no completion was found.

The command is called in find input panels, too.

• ST 4109
• Windows 10