• Choi: announcing Casual Make

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Mar 13 18:15:06 2025
    Choi: announcing Casual Make

    Date:
    Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:10:59 +0000

    Description:
    Charles Choi has announced the release of the Casual
    Make : a menu-driven interface, implemented as part of the Casual suite of tools, for Makefile
    Mode in GNU Emacs. Emacs supports makefile editing with make-mode which has a mix of
    useful and half-baked (though thankfully obsoleted in30.1)
    commands. It is from this substrate that I'm happy to announce the
    next Casual user interface: Casual Make . Of particular note to Casual Make
    is its attention to authoring and
    identifying automatic variables whose arcane syntax is
    un-memorizable. Want to know what $> means? Just select it in the
    makefile and use the . binding in the Casual Make menu to identify
    what it does in the mini-buffer. Casual Make is part of Casual
    2.4.0 , released on March12 and is available from MELPA . The 2.4.0 update to Casual also includes documentation in the Info format for the first time.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1014065/


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