Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:03:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Lin <loy AT tm DOT net DOT my>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Tabs in Makefile
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Lin wrote:

> I read that DJGPP make utility needs some special tabs in the makefile which
> DOS and Win95 Editor does not support. Is there any editor out there which
> is avilable free on which I can write makefiles without problems ?? I
> believe RHIDE does not support the special tabs either , right ?

Of course, RHIDE leaves the TABs you type intact, as in fact does any 
reasonable programmer's editor out there.  You just happened to have a 
bad start with the two editors that don't.

Either RHIDE, or SET's editor, or Emacs, or DFE, or any other editor will 
do.

And btw, there's nothing ``special'' about TABs required by Make: you 
just need to begin every command line in a rule with a single TAB 
character.  This is explained in the Make's manual.