untabify

English

Etymology

un- +‎ tabify

Verb

untabify (third-person singular simple present untabifies, present participle untabifying, simple past and past participle untabified)

1. (transitive, 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