different between untabify vs tabify

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

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