Free as in Pizza

Don’t you hate it when you realize you’ve been editing a file in soft-tabs mode and it’s turned into a jumble of tabs and spaces? TextMate includes a menu item to convert tabs to spaces, but it’s not accessible via an easy keyboard shortcut. Here’s a simple bundle command to replace the spaces at the beginning of each line with tabs, based on your current tab size setting.

Hat tip to Greg Bacon¹ for the perl one-liner² that makes up the bulk of this command.

In the example above (click to enlarge), I have the command bound to ctrl-shift-tab.

To do the opposite, converting tabs to spaces, use:

tagged perl, spaces, tabs, textmate