untabification

English

Etymology

un- +‎ tabification

Noun

untabification (uncountable)

1. (computing) The process of untabifying.
   • 1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, page 221:

     It makes untabification a bit easier, since you can do it all at once with the simple sequence C-x h ESC x untabify RETURN.

   • 2007, Miles Bader, “untabify Lisp sources”, in gnus.ding (Usenet):

     Well, _if_ you're going to do untabification, I guess it's best to keep it separate, but ... I think in general it's a very bad idea to make widespread source changes for purely cosmetic reasons […]

Antonyms

• tabification