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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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 13:05:01 -0700

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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).

Sounds good.  How about the attached patch?

[0001-checkdoc-y-or-n-p-no-longer-needs-space.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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