Re: .dir-locals.el in AUCTeX tree

[Tassilo Horn]

>> Indeed, but I guess we should go with Emacs' conventions.  The
>> question then is, of course, if we should pro-actively convert our
>> files.  One strategy would be to convert one file after the other
>> when one touches it anyway, probably in a seperate commit.  At least
>> we should try not to have a file half tab-indented and the other part
>> space-indented.
>
> 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).

Bye,
Tassilo