[Cmake] CMakeLists.txt case sensitivity

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap . rr . com
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:07:20 -0400


No plans on changing this.   However, if you use emacs or vim, you may
want to look at the syntax highlighting indentation code for them.
You can find them here:

http://www . cmake . org/HTML/Download . html

-Bill

At 02:39 AM 9/22/2003, Andras Varga wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a reason why CMakeLists.txt commands have to be all 
>upper-case? It really looks like SHOUTING, and I find long 
>CMakeList.txt files hard to read on the screen. (I guess 
>I'm not alone with this, there must be a reason why nearly 
>all programming languages use dominantly lower-case letters...) 
>Are there any plans to change it? As much as I know, making 
>command names case-insensitive wouldn't break backwards compatibility...
>
>Otherwise CMake looks a powerful and very-very useful tool for 
>creating cross-platform makefiles...
>
>Regards,
>Andras
>
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