untabification

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ tabification.

Noun

untabification (uncountable)

  1. (computing) The process of untabifying.
    • 1996, Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond, Learning GNU Emacs, page 221:
      It makes untabification a bit easier, since you can do it all at once with the simple sequence C-x h ESC x untabify RETURN.
    • 2007, Miles Bader, “untabify Lisp sources”, in gnus.ding (Usenet):
      Well, _if_ you're going to do untabification, I guess it's best to keep it separate, but ... I think in general it's a very bad idea to make widespread source changes for purely cosmetic reasons

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