Re: GNU make $(error )

[Andre Merzky]

Or vi of course - well, gvim I mean.  This is the standard vi fro
linux now, and supports quite reliable syntax highlighting for make.

Also available for other platforms, including win.

Andre.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> 
> %% address@hidden writes:
> 
>   b> All I can say is DOH!  I wish I could find a makefile aware
>   b> editor... It would be nice to avoid trips like this.
> 
> Emacs.
> 
> Emacs has a makefile mode, and it will warn you about "suspicious
> lines", highlight variables, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately it would not have caught this problem, because it doesn't
> know about all make syntax, just line-by-line syntax (so it doesn't
> notice that the previous line was not a target).  Having an editor with
> this level of sophistication would be extremely difficult, because make
> syntax is not easily parsed with simple, BNF type rules.
> 
> I also argued strongly that the font-locking in Emacs makefile-mode
> should fontify all initial TAB characters, not just lines with a TAB but
> no subsequent text.  If that had been done you would probably have
> noticed the problem earlier.  But, my argument was not accepted :(.
> 
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