Subject: Re: bug#50621: 28.0.50; Flymake wrong message about y-or-n-p

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:17:00 +0200

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Alternative C will cause some code-churn, but is also formally the most
> correct one. It might also save someones sanity if they are trying to
> fit a line into a 80 or 100 character limit.
>
> My preference is for, in order: C > B > A.

I think C is too ambitious -- there's code out-of-tree that needs to
work in a wide range of Emacs versions, so they can't remove the
trailing space.  So I like B (i.e.., check that there's "\\? *" at the
end).

(And then we can remove trailing spaces in-tree at will.)

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