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IEditorOperations.Tabify Method

Visual Studio 2012

Converts the leading white space to tabs on all lines touched by the selection and caret.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Operations
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.dll)
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bool Tabify()

Return Value

Type: Boolean
true if the edit succeeded, otherwise false.

If the column position of the first non-whitespace character is not evenly divisible by the tab size, there will be spaces left at the end of the line equal to the remainder of that division.

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