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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-01-27 12:27:50 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-01-27 12:27:50 +0200
commit90c76346740c097063b4a273ceb3af01327ff2a4 (patch)
tree33444db0c9ce277510006878648be77a97b374a6
parentd7ac7b15ca9e490c8e059ad92b968a3008a7b83e (diff)
downloademacs-90c76346740c097063b4a273ceb3af01327ff2a4.tar.gz
Fix 'describe-variable' for longish variable values
* lisp/help-fns.el (describe-variable): Don't accidentally remove the last character of a variable's value. (Bug#25545)
-rw-r--r--lisp/help-fns.el2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/help-fns.el b/lisp/help-fns.el
index edbcd9099d3..742c66919af 100644
--- a/lisp/help-fns.el
+++ b/lisp/help-fns.el
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ it is displayed along with the global value."
(terpri)
(pp val)
;; Remove trailing newline.
- (delete-char -1))
+ (and (= (char-before) ?\n) (delete-char -1)))
(let* ((sv (get variable 'standard-value))
(origval (and (consp sv)
(condition-case nil