GNU bug report logs - #75714
31.0.50; Empty search string gives error in Customize buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:03:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 75714-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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.
This bug report was last modified 173 days ago.

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