Subject: Re: bug#14614: 24.3.50; thing-at-point for symbol returns wrong value in makefile

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:16:57 -0400

Barry OReilly wrote:

> Let Makefile have contents:
>
>   MY_MAKE_VAR=foo bar
[...]
> Minibuffer indicates symbol at point is: MY_MAKE_VAR=foo

The solution is to give ?= punctuation syntax in Makefile mode.
I can't see any obvious reason not to do that...?