fix: incremental reuse leading to goals in front of the text cursor being shown #4395
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As reported on Zulip.
We expected that for sound reuse of elaboration results, it is sufficient to compare the old and new syntax tree's structure and atoms including position info, but not the whitespace in between them. However, we have at least one request handler, the goal view, that inspects the whitespace after a tactic and thus could return incorrect results on reuse. For now we implement the straightforward fix of checking the whitespace as well. Alternatives like updating the whitespace stored in the reused info tree are tbd.
This has the slight disadvantage that adding whitespace at the end of a tactic will re-execute it (or the entire body, but not the header, if the body is not a tactic block), but only up to typing the first character of the next tactic or command.