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: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmvy1IACgkQ84KuGfSFAYC4ogCgi6T1upLChwiRD49qQbUoZjKk > yRUAn1FLLNaQRh3etVgoAX4IP7q+ReKg > =x/Fi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/silly-question-about-editor-tp22345209p22354649.html Sent from the Gnu - Autoconf - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf