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Tabify vs Tabification - What's the difference?

tabify | tabification |

In computing|lang=en terms the difference between tabify and tabification

is that tabify is (computing) to reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters while tabification is (computing) the process of tabifying.

As a verb tabify

is (computing) to reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.

As a noun tabification is

(computing) the process of tabifying.

tabify

English

Verb

  • (computing) To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
  • * 1985 , Terry A. Ward, Applied programming techniques in C
    • 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.
  • * 1999 , Michael Amundsen, Practical Visual InterDev 6
    • You can only tabify source code

    Antonyms

    * untabify

    tabification

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) The process of tabifying.
  • * 1989 , James T. Smith, Advanced Turbo C
    • You can see that tabification can greatly reduce the length of such strings, hence the length of text files. For that reason, Blaise Computing Inc. source code files are tabified.
  • * 2006 , Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference
    • I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.

    Antonyms

    * untabification