spaces-for-tabs bugs are pretty common and very annoying though.
If it's not your editor then it's some stupid website or wiki page
that one puts example makefiles into. Or one types the example but
theres no way to insert a tab since it takes you to the next field.
Then people cut and past the
forgot to cc the list - oops.
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From: Tim Murphy tnmur...@gmail.com
Date: 5 September 2013 14:30
Subject: Re: [bug #39943] Add an alternative parsing mode that regards
space and tab as identical tokens
To: Paul D. Smith psm...@gnu.org
warning and finally
On Thu Sep 5 08:18:51 2013, psm...@gnu.org (Paul Smith) wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 11:43 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote:
The detection also appears to only work if the statement has a syntax
error in it.
Correct. If make can understand what the line is (it's a valid makefile
syntax), then
URL:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39943
Summary: Add an alternative parsing mode that regards space
and tab as identical tokens
Project: make
Submitted by: byronhawkins
Submitted on: Wed 04 Sep 2013 08:09:21 PM GMT
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Paul D. Smith invalid.nore...@gnu.orgwrote:
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39943 (project make):
IMO _any_ editor which automatically replaces TABs with spaces should
never be
considered to be a useful programming tool. But YMMV of course.
You know what they
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 18:15 -0400, David Boyce wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Paul D. Smith
invalid.nore...@gnu.org wrote:
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39943 (project make):
IMO _any_ editor which automatically replaces TABs with spaces
should never be
