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
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: None
Operating System: Any
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
Many popular text editors replace tabs with space automatically. This makes it
a tremendous hassle to create makefiles that differentiate between the tab and
space characters. Please consider adding a new parsing mode which regards
space and tab as identical, and introduce a new (visible) token to the syntax
for delimiting rules and commands.
At the very least, it is effectively cruel to print an error message about the
lack of hard tabs without using the exact text string "hard tab". Tell the
user that the error is all about a "hard tab" missing.
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