Since I use "zsh 4.3.17 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)" version the trick
"zstyle ':completion::*' insert-tab 'pending=1'" worked for
me. I will put it in ".zshrc".

I usually deal with tab-delimited tables, and it was really annoying for me
when I wanted to parse some parts using shell commands

Thank you very much!

Xavi


2016-09-01 18:37 GMT+02:00 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>:

> On Sep 1,  3:48pm, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> } Subject: Re: zsh Issue - "Tab" character is not pasted into shell
> }
> } Xavier Martinez Serrano <xmarti6@xtec.cat> writes:
> }
> } > I recently experimented an issue when pasting "tab" characters to zsh
> }
> } Without special copy&paste support, "pasting" just means the terminal
> } emulator types in the text very quickly, and <TAB> means to do
> } completion in this case...
>
> If you are using completions from "compinit" you can do this:
>
>     zstyle ':completion::*' insert-tab 'pending=1'
>
> This causes completion to look for pending input when it sees a TAB
> character and insert the tab literally if there's more input after it.
> Typically this happens only when pasting unless you are working with
> a very slow connection or a heavily loaded CPU, so the effect is that
> you are able to paste tabs without having completion consume them.
>
> } That said, recent zsh support terminal copy&paste, so with my zsh 5.2
> } this works out of the box (setopt zle_bracketed_paste), at least in
> } urxvt and xterm.
>
> There's actually no setopt for this, it's on by default.  To turn it
> OFF you must do "unset zle_bracketed_paste" (it's a parameter, not an
> option).
>