#140 blank lines omitted from source listing

[Lee Worden]

For instance, there's a big difference between this makefile:

Target : Prerequisite
\t

and the same one without the second line. But they look the same in the wiki page.

[Jonathan Dushoff]

I think this is really a problem with make, not WW.

The line following a dependency-only rule could be blank, or could contain only a tab.

This is a known issue that I believe people have tried to fix on occasion, only to be beaten back by traditionalists.

The only alternative, I guess, would be to have WW show some sort of end-of-line marker when rendering makefiles.

[Lee Worden]

Well, if WW didn't suppress the line altogether then at least we would know it's there, and could select it with the mouse to find out whether it has a tab in it or not. So that would be an alternative...