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Untabify vs Tabify - What's the difference?

untabify | tabify | Antonyms |

Tabify is a antonym of untabify.



In transitive computing terms the difference between untabify and tabify

is that untabify is to reformat (text) by converting tab characters into spaces while tabify is to reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.

untabify

English

Verb

  • (computing) To reformat (text) by converting tab characters into spaces.
  • * 1996 , Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs (page 221)
    • The untabify command works on a region.
  • * 1998 , Microsoft Visual Studio Core Reference Set (volume 2)
    • The macro expands the command to untabify an entire document, and not just selected text.

    Antonyms

    * tabify

    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