Re: silly question about editor

[aaragon]

I guess what I mean is that if you put an space between the MACRO and the
starting parenthesis, the macro fails and it's not like the error will point
you to the line in the configure.ac file. Besides it's quite hard to keep
track of all closing parenthesis and to get the quotation right. So there
has to be a better way to deal with this than just using a plain text
editor.

aa


Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to aaragon on 3/4/2009 9:46 PM:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Maybe this is a silly question, but I found that the macros that I write
>> in
>> the configure.ac sometimes fail depending on the spaces and tabs that I
>> use.
>> Is there a way to automatically indent the macros? I tried using emacs
>> but
>> it didn't help.
> 
> In what ways are you experiencing a failure?  Without an example of what
> you typed, what you expected, and what you got, I'm not sure how to answer
> you.  Autoconf includes an emacs mode to assist in writing autoconf
> scripts, but it needs more care before it can perform consistent and
> automatic indentation.
> 
> - --
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