We have a check for backslash alignment that checks for two blanks preceding a backslash. However there can be alignment done using a tabulator and in some cases one might be enough. There are none currently, but I found out that was the case before. at some point. so let's check for \t preceding the final backslash as well. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- cfg.mk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 5321a52b7ee2..ea10ca19f512 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ sc_prohibit_http_urls: $(_sc_search_regexp) sc_prohibit_backslash_alignment: - @prohibit='[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]\\$$' \ + @prohibit='([[:blank:]][[:blank:]]| )\\$$' \ in_vc_files='*\.([chx]|am|mk)$$' \ halt='Do not attempt to right-align backslashes' \ $(_sc_search_regexp)