Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1014065/

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 in 30.1)
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 March 12 and is available from MELPA. The 2.4.0 update to
Casual also includes documentation in the Info format for the first time.