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make-mode.el - improve makefile-warn-suspicious-lines

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 10956 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jaalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
Subject: bug#10956: make-mode.el - improve makefile-warn-suspicious-lines
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:51:33 -0800

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I notice the absence of a line with only spaces in your examples.
> Would you consider such a line as suspicious?
> Could you expand on why you consider your examples as suspicious?
> I think I'd agree with "\t[ \t]*" since such lines behave identically to
> TAB-only lines, but I'm not so sure about lines starting with a space.
>
> Since such suspicious lines end up prompting the user, we had better be
> sure they're really risky, otherwise we might bother people for no
> good reason.

More information was requested a year ago, but no further progress seems
to have been made.  I'm closing this bug report now, but if you still
think that these lines should be suspicious, please reopen.

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