Re: [Haskell-beginners] Warning: Tab Character

I believe the first version of make required tabs, but some subsequent versions have relaxed that requirement to make things easier. Here's an example on a Linux Mint system (the 20's are of course spaces) : $ od -cx < Makefile cmd output started 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:47 PM PST 0000000 \n g o : \n . / t \n \n 670a 3a6f 200a 2020 2e20 742f 0a0a 0000016 above cmd output done 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:47 PM PST dstromberg@dell-inspiron:/var/tmp/make-tabs i686-pc-linux-gnu 25234 $ make cmd output started 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:48 PM PST Makefile:3: *** missing separator. Stop. above cmd output done 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:48 PM PST dstromberg@dell-inspiron:/var/tmp/make-tabs i686-pc-linux-gnu 25234 $ make --version cmd output started 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:53 PM PST GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program built for i686-pc-linux-gnu above cmd output done 2015 Sat Nov 21 04:39:53 PM PST dstromberg@dell-inspiron:/var/tmp/make-tabs i686-pc-linux-gnu 25234 I'll add that vim's Makefile syntax highlighting puts the space-indented line in red, suggesting an error. Changing the spaces to a single tab makes the red go away. HTH On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Thomas Jakway wrote:

Why would make require tabs...? Admittedly it's been a long time since I've written any makefiles by hand but I always use spaces instead of tabs and have never had any problems.

On Nov 21, 2015 6:01 PM, David Moberg wrote:

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Have you found "soft tabs"? That option will make TextMate use spaces

instead of tab characters. Read 4.11 "Using Spaces Instead of Tabs" in Dan Strombergs link for instrucitons.

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2015-11-21 21:36 GMT+01:00 Jeon-Young Kang :

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I've tried to choose "instead of spaces". But there is no option of

mine (Textmate 2 beta).

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On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Dan Stromberg

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Perhaps enable soft tabs? https://manual.macromates.com/en/working_with_text

This is an issue in Python too (at least from PEP8's perspective) -

but note that many "make" programs require tabs instead of spaces.

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On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Jeon-Young Kang

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Hello everyone.

I am a newbie of Haskell, using Textmate on mac.

I got the following warning. How can I fix it?

Warning:

Tab character

Ok, modules loaded: Main.

Sincerely, Young

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