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Tabify Select Lines

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July 7, 2010 at 9:47 pm

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Open Minded SSCommitted Points: 1852 More actions · Answer 1

3% of 36 or one person answered the Garfield option.

Duncan Pryde SSCertifiable Points: 7956 More actions · Answer 2

It only "tabifies" groups of 4 spaces starting from the left, so if you have 5 spaces at the beginning of the line, you'll get a tab and a space after running this.

I think it's the same in Visual Studio.

Duncan

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July 8, 2010 at 3:50 am

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SSMS question after a long time..:-) thanks

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Duncan Pryde (7/8/2010)
It only "tabifies" groups of 4 spaces starting from the left, so if you have 5 spaces at the beginning of the line, you'll get a tab and a space after running this.
I think it's the same in Visual Studio.
Duncan

Actually, it "tabifies" based upon the setting in Options|Text Editor|All Languages/Plain Text/Transact-SQL/XML|Tabs for the Tab Size setting.

In my case, it's set to 2. Selecting tabify on your 5 spaces gives me 2 tabs and 1 space.

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Duncan Pryde SSCertifiable Points: 7956 More actions · Answer 5

WayneS (7/8/2010)
Duncan Pryde (7/8/2010)
It only "tabifies" groups of 4 spaces starting from the left, so if you have 5 spaces at the beginning of the line, you'll get a tab and a space after running this.
I think it's the same in Visual Studio.
Duncan
Actually, it "tabifies" based upon the setting in Options|Text Editor|All Languages/Plain Text/Transact-SQL/XML|Tabs for the Tab Size setting.
In my case, it's set to 2. Selecting tabify on your 5 spaces gives me 2 tabs and 1 space.

Ah, interesting. There had to be an option to configure it somewhere! I suppose I've just always been happy with the default...

Duncan

Tom Garth SSCertifiable Points: 6193 More actions · Answer 6

I think the answer is not quite correct. The action only changes the LEADING spaces on a line to tabs.

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webrunner SSC-Dedicated Points: 31711 More actions · Answer 7

"Changes the font to look like cat scratchings" is getting 1% of the answers as of the time I posted this comment. A small but bold cadre of users who are willing to sacrifice QOTD points for humor.

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mtillman-921105 SSCertifiable Points: 7156 More actions · Answer 8

Tom Garth (7/8/2010)
I think the answer is not quite correct. The action only changes the LEADING spaces on a line to tabs.

Yes, the answer could have been more specific. But the feature's basic purpose is to change spaces to tabs.

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SanjayAttray SSChampion Points: 13157 More actions · Answer 9

Tom Garth (7/8/2010)
I think the answer is not quite correct. The action only changes the LEADING spaces on a line to tabs.

Tabify Selected Lines – Replaces the leading whitespace on a line that contains the selection with tabs. Doesn’t matter whether the leading whitespace is selected, as long as part of the line is selected.

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UMG Developer SSChampion Points: 13482 More actions · Answer 10

Nice question, thanks! It is nice to see some of the SSMS features included in the QotD since people don't always explore and find them.

mtillman-921105 SSCertifiable Points: 7156 More actions · Answer 11

I appreciate that UMG Developer. You know exactly why I chose that question. 😎

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Open Minded (7/7/2010)
3% of 36 or one person answered the Garfield option.

The song "Cat Scratch Fever" keeps running through my mind. 😉

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

Thanks for the question.

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Atif-ullah Sheikh SSChampion Points: 12495 More actions · Answer 14

Nice one.

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