URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48276>
Summary: Better errors for accidental spaces
Project: make
Submitted by: steveklabnik
Submitted on: Mon 20 Jun 2016 04:10:17 PM GMT
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: SCM
Operating System: Any
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
Hey there,
Over the weekend, I was working with someone who uses spaces over tabs in all
the programming that they do. Their editor wasn't properly configured to
switch when using make, and so they got the classic "missing separator." error
message. Today, I learned that make already has a special error for an
eight-space indent, "missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8
spaces?)."
I know eight spaces is classic, but many languages use two or four space
indents as a style. Would there be any interest in also adding messages for
these cases? I have written a simple patch for this, but since I'm not a
project member, cannot submit it directly.
Is there any interest in a patch for this? My current iteration is to do the
simplest thing, and detect 2 and 4 directly, but I think with some work I
could make it detect an arbitrary number, if that's preferred. Thoughts?
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