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[PATCH] avoid flyspell error if point is at bob

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> gmail.com
Cc: alex.branham <at> gmail.com, 35967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35967: [PATCH] avoid flyspell error if point is at bob
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:39:02 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> gmail.com
> Cc: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>,  35967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:12:12 -0400
> 
> it seems fairly easy to remember that bobp should treat a narrowed
> buffer the same way that beginning-of-buffer will.

Not for this old curmudgeon, evidently.

> My only complaint about bobp is that it's abbreviated perhaps a little
> too far, to the point of obscurity.  As in, who is "bob" and why are we
> asking about him?

That question has a known answer: Bob's your uncle.

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