Spaces to Tabs

Menu: Block > Convert Other > Spaces to Tabs

Default Shortcut Key: none

Macro function: SpacesToTabs()

The Spaces to Tabs command can be used to convert the Spaces within a selected area of text into an equivalent number of Tabs.  In doing so, Boxer uses the current display value of a Tab (View | Tab Display Size) to determine how many Tabs should be used.

No attempt is made to determine whether the Spaces being changed reside within a quoted string.  Programmers should be careful when using this command, as changing Spaces within a quoted string may yield undesirable results if the string was to be displayed in a message on-screen.

The Spaces to Tabs and Tabs to Spaces commands are not opposites.  If the Tab Display Size is 4, the sentence:

The<tab>dog<tab>ran<tab>wild.

would be converted by the Tabs to Spaces command to:

The<space>dog<space>ran<space>wild.

Running the Spaces to Tabs command on this sentence would not yield the original sentence.  A sequence of two or more spaces is required before a tab character is considered for placement into the converted text.