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28.0.50; Flymake wrong message about y-or-n-p

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti <at> inventati.org>, 50621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50621: 28.0.50; Flymake wrong message about y-or-n-p
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:17:00 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> 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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