Hi, Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:59:41 +0100 >> From: Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" >> >> >> 1. emacs -Q >> 2. C-x 8 e s RET >> [ i.e. invoke `emoji-search` and exit with an empty minibuffer ] >> 3. Observe error "Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil". This >> error message could be more friendly, but that's not the issue here. >> 4. C-x 8 e r >> 5. Observe error "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". That's the issue. >> >> What happens is that C-x 8 e s RET adds `nil` to the value of >> `emoji--recent`, which breaks subsequent C-x 8 e r (`emoji-recent`). >> This is extra troublesome because `emoji--recent` is used as a >> multisession variable, so simply restarting Emacs doesn't help. >> >> I see this also with Emacs 29.2, FWIW. > > Thanks. Patches for fixing this will be most welcome. I'm attaching such a patch below. This provides better feedback when you exit the `C-x 8 e s` minibuffer with an empty input, and avoids adding `nil` to `emoji--recent` by bailing beforehand.