RE: GNU make $(error )

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  b> I don't think it would be that hard - on Windows anyway, I believe
  b> a plug-in a popular editor should be possible... Might have a go
  b> myself!

Heh.  Good luck!  It's probably not hard to write something that
recognizes 80% of makefiles--but the _real_ syntax of makefiles is
nowhere near as simple to manage.

Just as an example of the issues: remember that comments and blank
lines, and even make preprocessor statements (ifeq, etc.) can appear
_inside_ a command script for a rule, and subsequent command script
lines (beginning with a TAB) are still attached to the rule.

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