>> I'm not sure, but I think the latter strategy is the one chosen by >> Emacs project. IIRC the rationale was not to produce large portion >> of history tracked which is just replacement of tabs with >> whitespaces. But that concern doesn't apply to AUCTeX. I would be >> fine if we just `untabify' AUCTeX sources and check them in a >> separate commit. >> >> What do others think? > > Yes, I think that's ok for us, and I'm going to do that right now. > And diffing across tab/space indentation boundaries is not so painful > with git (see the various --ignore-*-space options).
Done, and I have released 13.0.1 via ELPA containing a fix for bug#45510. Bye, Tassilo
