From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 12:26:18 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Clarify what counts as whitespace in `string-blank-p'
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~1553^2~59
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4051fa3ba9b4527b57b4cd114ddaaf72a3b23528;p=emacs.git

Clarify what counts as whitespace in `string-blank-p'

* lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el (string-blank-p): Expand doc string.
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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el
index f76409c4de8..bb2bf3dd5fa 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el
@@ -236,7 +236,9 @@ TRIM-LEFT and TRIM-RIGHT default to \"[ \\t\\n\\r]+\"."
   (string-trim-left (string-trim-right string trim-right) trim-left))
 
 (defsubst string-blank-p (string)
-  "Check whether STRING is either empty or only whitespace."
+  "Check whether STRING is either empty or only whitespace.
+The following characters count as whitespace here: space, tab, newline and
+carriage return."
   (string-match-p "\\`[ \t\n\r]*\\'" string))
 
 (defsubst string-remove-prefix (prefix string)