Re: [bug #39943] Add an alternative parsing mode that regards space and tab as identical tokens

[Tim Murphy]

ah, interesting  - good point. My standard (at least the enforced
standard where I work) is 4-spaces and it doesn't catch that.

On 5 September 2013 10:44, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:38:16 +0100
>> From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Byron Hawkins <address@hidden>,
>>       Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden>, bug-make <address@hidden>
>>
>> It would be nice even if make was able to guess what might be
>> happening and issue a warning
>
> It already does:
>
>   /usr/tmp/Gma07464:2: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 
> spaces?).  Stop.



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