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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	"DeHackEd" <not DOT given AT out DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:01:47 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Tabs in Makefile
In-reply-to:	<ueLcP8#59GA.232@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>

> Lin wrote in message <360a29b8 DOT 0 AT news1 DOT tm DOT net DOT my>...
> >Hi ,
> >
> >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 ?
> 
> 
> The only special tabs you need are actual "\t" tabs and not a bunch of spaces.
> 
> RHIDE does support tabs, but you need to check "USE TABS" in the Options,
> Environment, editor options.  Since you have Windows, beleive it or not, you can
> use NOTEPAD. Unless you have a makefile over 70KB it makes for a great tool.
> Just remember to hit the TAB key and not 8 spaces.

Take RHIDE, open the damaged make file (the one with spaces where tabs are 
needed), select a tab size according to the number of spaces you used and 
then choose Edit|Compact Text. The spaces will be agrupated in tabs, I fixed 
some makefiles in this way.

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