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nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> The function fixup-whitespace leaves a trailing space when invoked at
> the end of a line (and this bug is a lot older than emacs-24.4).

Seems to have been present since the beginning, 1991-12-21 "Initial
revision" shows the same code.

> To reproduce: Run emacs -Q. Type x, to get a line containing "x" and
> with point at the end. Type M-x fixup-whitespace RET. A space is added,
> so we get a line containing "x ".
>
> I think this is a bug, because it's inconsistent with spacing
> conventions I'm aware of, and the space is deleted by emacs' M-x
> whitespace-cleanup.
>
> Patch below seems to solve the problem.

Looks good to me, I will push to master in a few days.