Subject: Re: bug#75714: 31.0.50; Empty search string gives error in Customize buffer
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Mauro Aranda <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:15:41 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:24:32 -0300
> From: Mauro Aranda <[email-masked]>
> 
> Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>  >> After emacs -Q do:
>  >> M-x customize-group RET RET
>  >> C-n 3 times, to get to the Search field.
>  >> RET
>  >>
>  >> This gives an error:
>  >> apropos-parse-pattern: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>  >>
>  >> It'd be a tiny improvement to message the user instead.
>  >
>  > Good catch.
> 
> Thanks Drew.  Although it was pure luck: I was trying to improve other
> aspects of the editable-field widget.
> 
>  > FWIW, this goes back to Emacs 24, when
>  > the Search field was introduced.
> 
> Let's not let it turn 15 years old.  I attach a patch.

Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.