(Original issue 1116 created by ngzhian on 2015-06-21T19:58:45.145782+00:00)
To reproduce
#!python
import pygments
lexer = pygments.lexers.PythonLexer()
formatter = pygments.formatters.TerminalFormatter()
pygments.highlight('\n\n#a', lexer, formatter) # 2 empty lines then a comment
# outputs: u'\x1b[37m#a\x1b[39;49;00m\n'
should the new line at the start be stripped?