From cccaa9c31de363bba5920031ecdb9db4ad3207ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:40:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a kill-append regression

* lisp/simple.el (kill-append): Fix a regression when
kill-ring-max is zero (bug#54842).
---
 lisp/simple.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index a8ca9600aff..b9cb957064d 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -5183,7 +5183,7 @@ If `kill-append-merge-undo' is non-nil, remove the last undo
 boundary in the current buffer."
   (let ((cur (car kill-ring)))
     (kill-new (if before-p (concat string cur) (concat cur string))
-              (or (string= cur "")
+              (or (= (length cur) 0)
                   (null (get-text-property 0 'yank-handler cur)))))
   (when (and kill-append-merge-undo (not buffer-read-only))
     (let ((prev buffer-undo-list)
-- 
2.39.2