From b472884e5e7e9caf1ba70e8a09a67d92684650a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:28:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] org.el (org-insert-heading): Don't delete spaces in empty
 headlines

* org.el (org-insert-heading): Don't delete spaces in empty
headlines.
---
 lisp/org.el | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 64b40a198..781e3be29 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -7447,6 +7447,8 @@ This is important for non-interactive uses of the command."
 		    (org-end-of-subtree nil t)
 		    (and (looking-at "^\\*") (backward-char 1))
 		    (while (and (not (bobp))
+				;; Don't delete spaces in empty headlines
+				(not (looking-back org-outline-regexp))
 				(member (char-before) '(?\ ?\t ?\n)))
 		      (backward-delete-char 1)))
 		(let ((p (point)))