Avoid crashes when stepping with right-arrow through "^L^L".

 bidi.c (bidi_paragraph_init): Remove redundant assertion that we are at
 the beginning of a line after call to bidi_find_paragraph_start.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 32413ae11c3..30bd78e208c 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 	* bidi.c (bidi_paragraph_init): Don't leave alone garbage values
 	of bidi_it->paragraph_dir.  Call bidi_initialize if needed.
+	(bidi_paragraph_init): Remove redundant assertion that we are at
+	the beginning of a line after call to bidi_find_paragraph_start.
 
 	* xdisp.c (Fcurrent_bidi_paragraph_direction): New function.
 	(syms_of_xdisp): Defsubr it.
diff --git a/src/bidi.c b/src/bidi.c
index 6939e51159f..dbc95608fea 100644
--- a/src/bidi.c
+++ b/src/bidi.c
@@ -916,11 +916,6 @@ bidi_paragraph_init (bidi_dir_t dir, struct bidi_it *bidi_it)
 	 middle of it.  Find where this paragraph starts.  */
       bytepos = bidi_find_paragraph_start (pos, bytepos);
 
-      /* We should always be at the beginning of a new line at this
-	 point.  */
-      if (!(bytepos == BEGV_BYTE || FETCH_CHAR (bytepos - 1) == '\n'))
-	abort ();
-
       bidi_it->separator_limit = -1;
       bidi_it->new_paragraph = 0;
       ch = FETCH_CHAR (bytepos);