From 90c76346740c097063b4a273ceb3af01327ff2a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:27:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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) --- lisp/help-fns.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.39.5