Subj : Choi: announcing Casual Make
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From : LWN.net
Date : Thu Mar 13 2025 18:15:06

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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