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-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