Can you make valid Makefiles without tab characters?

Question

target: dependencies
    command1
    command2

On my system (Mac OS X), make seems to require that that Makefiles have a tab character

Answer 1

If you are using EditorConfig, you can add the following lines to your .editorconfig file to force your IDE to use tab for indentation instead of spaces in Makefile:

[Makefile]
indent_style = tab