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31.0.50; Empty search string gives error in Customize buffer

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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75714: closed (31.0.50; Empty search string gives error in
 Customize buffer)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:16:02 +0000

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From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; Empty search string gives error in Customize buffer
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:16:56 -0300

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.


In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2025-01-20 built on tbb-desktop
Repository revision: 458135155675a29a2c064998afc0cb416cd38b52
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12201001
System Description: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY
INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_MONETARY: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: es_AR.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Custom

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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term/common-win x-dnd touch-screen tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt
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code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote
threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting cairo gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty move-toolbar
make-network-process tty-child-frames emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 65796 11989) (symbols 48 7184 0) (strings 32 17200 1834)
 (string-bytes 1 403270) (vectors 16 11161)
 (vector-slots 8 128725 7803) (floats 8 29 53) (intervals 56 583 14)
 (buffers 992 13))

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75714-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#75714: 31.0.50;
 Empty search string gives error in Customize buffer
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:15:41 +0200

> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:24:32 -0300
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> 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.

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