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commit 844f95e6df94be0bfd82a6b053b6afbd1a2dfc18
parent 67d22f4cced4dc6913ffb502aae86f5aa043dc3f
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Sat,  1 Aug 2020 20:38:29 +0200

speller: give proper feedback when the user tries to check emptiness

(The wording is general, because it should cover also the formatter.)

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58865.

Bug existed since version 4.6, commit d2fb371f.

Diffstat:
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src/text.c
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7
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1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/text.c b/src/text.c
@@ -2104,8 +2104,13 @@ void treat(char *tempfile_name, char *theprogram, bool spelling)
 	/* Stat the temporary file.  If that succeeds and its size is zero,
 	 * there is nothing to do; otherwise, store its time of modification. */
 	if (stat(tempfile_name, &fileinfo) == 0) {
-		if (fileinfo.st_size == 0)
+		if (fileinfo.st_size == 0) {
+			if (spelling && openfile->mark)
+				statusline(ALERT, _("Selection is empty"));
+			else
+				statusbar(_("Buffer is empty"));
 			return;
+		}
 
 		timestamp_sec = (long)fileinfo.st_mtim.tv_sec;
 		timestamp_nsec = (long)fileinfo.st_mtim.tv_nsec;