different between tabify vs tabification

English

Etymology

tab +? -ify

Verb

tabify (third-person singular simple present tabifies, present participle tabifying, simple past and past participle tabified)

1. (transitive, 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.

Antonyms

• untabify

See also

• Tabs vs Spaces Debate in Programming

English

Etymology

tab +? -ification

Noun

tabification (uncountable)

1. (computing) The process of tabifying.
   • 1989, James T. Smith, Advanced Turbo C

     You can see that tabification can greatly reduce the length of such strings, hence the length of text files. For that reason, Blaise Computing Inc. source code files are tabified.

   • 2006, Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference

     I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.

Antonyms

• untabification