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tabify

verb

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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From tab + -ify.

  1. 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

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