Untabify Text Columns README

For text files with tab-separated columns, this extension replaces each tab with the appropriate number of spaces to maintain a columnar layout. Additionally, it can do the reverse, replacing multiple contiguous spaces with tabs.

If there is no active selection in the text editor, the entire file is processed; otherwise, only the selected text is modified.

Example Usage

The following animation shows an example of untabifying a section of assembly language source code and then a simple data file. The final screen shows the available configuration settings.

Keybindings

• Ctrl+Shift+U: Untabify to replace tabs with spaces
• Ctrl+Shift+T: Tabify to replace spaces with tabs

Extension Settings

The following configuration settings are available for the Untabify extension:

• untabify.extraSpaces: The number of spaces to insert between each column of text when using Untabify. Default is 3.

• untabify.minimumSpaces: The minimum number of contiguous spaces that will be converted to a tab when using Tabify. Default is 3, meaning that each contiguous block of 3 or more spaces will be converted to a single tab.

Known Issues

The first line of the file (or of the selected text) is used to determine how many tab-separated columns there are. If that line has more columns than subsequent lines, Untabify will work as expected. But if the first line has fewer columns, then only that many columns will be untabified for all subsequent lines, which could leave behind unprocessed tabs.

Release Notes

0.1.0

Initial release