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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el index 710ff821f1..d6fa09e94a 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el @@ -367,7 +367,9 @@ In the absence of INDEX, just call `eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc'." (and (stringp doc) (substitute-command-keys (save-match-data - (let ((start (if (string-match "^\\*" doc) (match-end 0) 0))) + ;; Don't use "^" in the regexp below since it may match + ;; anywhere in the doc-string. + (let ((start (if (string-match "\\`\\*" doc) (match-end 0) 0))) (cond ((string-match "\n" doc) (substring doc start (match-beginning 0))) ((zerop start) doc) |