tabify
verb
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L228851 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
verb
Etymology: From tab + -ify.
- To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
“A common use of this program is to tabify text files which you've loaded in over the phone from a computer system (like UNIX) that tends to turn all tabs into spaces for 300 baud DEC writers.”
“You can only tabify source code”