Choi: announcing Casual Make

Charles Choi has announcedthe release of the CasualMake: a menu-driven interface, implemented as part of the Casualsuite of tools, for MakefileMode in GNU Emacs.

Emacs supports makefile editing with make-mode which has a mix ofuseful and half-baked (though thankfully obsoleted in30.1)commands. It is from this substrate that I'm happy to announce thenext Casual user interface: Casual Make.

Of particular note to Casual Make is its attention to authoring andidentifying automatic variables whose arcane syntax isun-memorizable. Want to know what $> means? Just select it in themakefile and use the . binding in the Casual Make menu to identifywhat it does in the mini-buffer.

Casual Make is part of Casual2.4.0, released on March12 and is available from MELPA. The 2.4.0 update toCasual also includes documentation in the Info format for the first time.