Short: Re-insert real TABs in a makefile Author: steigies@physik.uni-kiel.de (Christian Steigies) Uploader: steigies physik uni-kiel de (Christian Steigies) Type: text/edit Version: 0.04 Architecture: m68k-amigaos GoldED has the nice feature to convert TABs to a number of spaces when GED reads a file. When using gcc and especially GNU make this can be a problem, because GNU make needs TABs as seperators. So if you want to edit your makefile with GoldED and you don't want to insert all the lost TABs again by hand, use GEDMake. Usage: GEDMake GEDMake will read the and for every 8 SPACEs at the begining of a line, it will write a TAB in the . All other chars will go through unchanged. Remember that its 8 SPACEs for one TAB, the standard GoldED configuration will give you only 4 SPACEs when you hit TAB. But when you read a file one TAB gives you 8 SPACEs... Try: GEDMake testfile out And then compare out and Makefile, the are equal :-) If you know how to do this from within GoldED or find a bug, please write me a mail.