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-rw-r--r--lisp/newcomment.el2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/newcomment.el b/lisp/newcomment.el
index 4b261c34c65..118549f421c 100644
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ N defaults to 0.
If N is `re', a regexp is returned instead, that would match
the string for any N."
(setq n (or n 0))
- (when (and (stringp str) (not (string= "" str)))
+ (when (and (stringp str) (string-match "\\S-" str))
;; Separate the actual string from any leading/trailing padding
(string-match "\\`\\s-*\\(.*?\\)\\s-*\\'" str)
(let ((s (match-string 1 str)) ;actual string