Subject: bug#15875: 24.3.50; diff-mode counts first column when determining tab width

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:52:15 -0500

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Note that diff-mode also handles diffs that have a mix of context-style
> and unified-style hunks, but such a tab-offset feature wouldn't be able
> to handle it correctly.  Not a big issue, tho.

What if the tab width were a text property instead of a buffer variable?
(Or perhaps it coulbe be both, with the latter overriding the former.)