tabification en · NOUN
Etymology
From tab + -ification.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The process of tabifying.
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.
1989, James T. Smith, Advanced Turbo C:I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.
2006, Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference: