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verbtabify (third-person singular simple present tabifies, present participle tabifying, simple past and past participle tabified)
present singular third person tabifies · participle present tabifying · participle past tabified · past tabified
- transitivecomputingTo reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
You can only tabify source code
1999, Michael Amundsen, Practical Visual InterDev 61 more example
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, Applied programming techniques in C
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APA
tabify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabify
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“tabify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabify. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tabify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabify.
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