i'm in vim, i'm editing like a madman (nothing else explains it) and i write out my changes
:w<cr> and then i do a make: :make<cr> which displays <== blank line, here> Unmatched `. all up-to-date <== blank line, again> Hit ENTER or type command to continue the Makefile contains default : $(STAMPFILES) @echo "all up-to-date" so i can see when make is executing. to figure out where the "Unmatched `" comes from i tried "make" from the command line-- $ make all up-to-date $ so it's not make, per se. what other suspect is there, besides a vim macro? how (else) would i track this down? i also tried vim -V team.sql [snippety snip] finished sourcing /usr/share/vim/vim61/plugin/rrhelper.vim Searching for "/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/plugin/*.vim" Searching for "/home/will/.vim/after/plugin/*.vim" Reading viminfo file "/home/will/.viminfo" info [here's where i get to edit, then i do :make and...] Calling shell to execute: "make |& tee /tmp/v190198/0" Unmatched `. psql -d serensoft -f team.sql &> team.sql.out all up-to-date Hit ENTER or type command to continue so -V didn't help much either. where's the unmatched backtick gonna be found? (i did recently change my tcsh "complete" pattern for make: % complete make 'n/-f/f/' 'p@*@`perl -ne 'if (/^([^\s#.][-\w.%]+)\s*:/) {print "$1 "}' Makefile`@' but surely that's unrelated...) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #123 from John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking for a BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO LINUX ADMINISTRATION? apt-get install ldp-sag sysadmin-guide That'll get you both the HTML-ified/PS-ified and the text file. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]