[PATCH] Improve “missing separator” error when reading spaces

2016-11-19 Thread Michael Stapelberg
With this change, users who have their editor misconfigured when writing Makefiles without using 8 spaces for one TAB character will also get a friendly error message. I used the following 3 test cases: echo -e "foo:\n echo bar" > broken.make echo -e "foo:\necho bar" > broken.8.make

[PATCH] Improve “missing separator” error when reading spaces

2016-11-19 Thread Michael Stapelberg
With this change, users who have their editor misconfigured when writing Makefiles without using 8 spaces for one TAB character will also get a friendly error message. I used the following 3 test cases: echo -e "foo:\n echo bar" > broken.make echo -e "foo:\necho bar" > broken.8.make