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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:21:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> and would avoid all the problems with tab-destroying editors. I can't
> help thinking that if anyone really has written makefiles which use
> the distinction between a tab vs. 8 spaces as an important syntactical
> feature, they might be well advised to rewrite their makefile in any
> case, since it seems somewhat crazy to be using 
> non-visible characters
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Does why I added "See tabs" option in my editor and enabled by default ;-))
After doing it I got amazed of how many stupid things are hided inside 
makefiles (tabs mixed with spaces, tabs and spaces at the end of lines, tabs 
in command calls separating parameters, all of them aren't intentional just 
because tabs are invisible).

> for anything important...

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