tabify
To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
Verb
- To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
- 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. - 1985, Terry A. Ward,...
- You can only tabify source code - 1999, Michael Amundsen, Practical Visual InterDev 6:
Origin
From tab + -ify.