Definitions
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- verb transitive, computing To
reformat (text) byconverting spaces intotab characters .
Etymologies
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tab + -ify
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Examples
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I did my own editor and provided embedded tabify / untabify functionality in there, similar to what
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Having a tabify / untabify utility is fine; I think there may be some problems though with tabs and / or spaces embedded in a literal string:
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$a = this. $tabs.eq (index), a = $a [0]; this. tabify ();
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Visual Studio's tabify feature will leave the two SPACEs in place, so that's the default behavior (
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