bug#16971: 24.3.50; comment-beginning behaves differently in current newcomment.el, leads to error in comment-indent-new-line

[Glenn Morris]

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Frank Ruben wrote:

> Anyway in *scratch* buffer, it was like (where '|' marks cursor position):
>
> 1) With current newcomment.el (December 2013):
>
>     (foo ; bar |baz
>
>      M-j =>
>
>     (foo ; bar
>     baz

Thanks, I can confirm that.