Hi Laslo, As a note,
> -GEN = gen/grapheme gen/grapheme-test > -LIB = src/grapheme src/utf8 src/util > -TEST = test/grapheme test/grapheme-performance test/utf8-decode > test/utf8-encode > - > -MAN3 = man/lg_grapheme_isbreak.3 man/lg_grapheme_nextbreak.3 > +GEN =\ > + gen/grapheme\ > + gen/grapheme-test > +SRC =\ > + src/grapheme\ > + src/utf8\ > + src/util > +TEST =\ > + test/grapheme\ > + test/grapheme-performance\ > + test/utf8-decode\ > + test/utf8-encode > +MAN3 =\ > + man/lg_grapheme_isbreak.3\ > + man/lg_grapheme_nextbreak.3 > MAN7 = man/libgrapheme.7 > > all: libgrapheme.a libgrapheme.so The idiomatic way of using those is to escape the newline on every macro line. The goal here is to help producing less noise in patches which add or remove lines there, so that only the actual concerned lines are modified, not the one that may be the last because you now need to add or remove a '\' there.
