[Haskell-beginners] Warning: Tab Character

Thomas Jakway tjakway at nyu.edu
Sat Nov 21 23:34:10 UTC 2015


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 <kaddkaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 2015-11-21 21:36 GMT+01:00 Jeon-Young Kang <jykang22 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I've tried to choose "instead of spaces". But there is no option of mine (Textmate 2 beta).
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Dan Stromberg <strombrg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Jeon-Young Kang <jykang22 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>  
>> Jeon-Young Kang
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