[bug #39943] Add an alternative parsing mode that regards space and tab as identical tokens

[Byron Hawkins]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39943>

                 Summary: Add an alternative parsing mode that regards space
and tab as identical tokens
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: byronhawkins
            Submitted on: Wed 04 Sep 2013 08:09:21 PM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: None
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

Many popular text editors replace tabs with space automatically. This makes it
a tremendous hassle to create makefiles that differentiate between the tab and
space characters. Please consider adding a new parsing mode which regards
space and tab as identical, and introduce a new (visible) token to the syntax
for delimiting rules and commands. 

At the very least, it is effectively cruel to print an error message about the
lack of hard tabs without using the exact text string "hard tab". Tell the
user that the error is all about a "hard tab" missing. 




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