Tabs to Spaces Online Converter

There's a (web)app for everything. In this case thanks to Anders Åberg, who was thoughtful enough to even include a feature for adding four additional spaces to the beginning (to generate a markdown code block).

Using Microsoft Word

1. Paste the code (extra text is okay) and place the cursor at the beginning
2. Open Find and Replace
   • Enter ^t into the Find field
   • Enter the desired number of spaces into the Replace field
3. Click on Replace All
4. Replace the old text in the editor with this fixed text

_{This image is from Word 2010 and may differ from other versions.}

Using vim

Select the code, and paste it in to an empty vim terminal/screen.

Enter the following sequence:

:set ts=4
:set expandtab
:retab

Select the code out again.

Rolf Actually posted an answer Here that shows how to format code for posting here from Eclipse and NotePad++

I use NotePad++ which is why I remember that we had discussed this elsewhere.

• Using Notepad++

  1. CtrlA
  2. Edit->Blank Operations->Tab to Spaces
  3. CtrlC
  4. CtrlW to close file
  5. AltTab back to Stack Overflow
  6. CtrlV to paste fixed code back again

I stole a lot of Rolf's answer for this