Merge #1981 'treat NULL initialized vimscript string as api type String'

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/api/vim_spec.lua b/test/functional/api/vim_spec.lua
index bee9c18bd8..cbdb1980f0 100644
--- a/test/functional/api/vim_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/api/vim_spec.lua
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ describe('vim_* functions', function()
       nvim('command', 'let g:v2 = [1, 2, {"v3": 3}]')
       eq({v1 = 'a', v2 = {1, 2, {v3 = 3}}}, nvim('eval', 'g:'))
     end)
+
+    it('handles NULL-initialized strings correctly', function()
+      eq(1, nvim('eval',"matcharg(1) == ['', '']"))
+      eq({'', ''}, nvim('eval','matcharg(1)'))
+    end)
   end)
 
   describe('strwidth', function()
diff --git a/test/functional/shell/viml_system_spec.lua b/test/functional/shell/viml_system_spec.lua
index d24646e712..b35f070159 100644
--- a/test/functional/shell/viml_system_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/shell/viml_system_spec.lua
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ describe('system()', function()
   if xclip then
     describe("with a program that doesn't close stdout", function()
       it('will exit properly after passing input', function()
-        eq(nil, eval([[system('xclip -i -selection clipboard', 'clip-data')]]))
+        eq('', eval([[system('xclip -i -selection clipboard', 'clip-data')]]))
         eq('clip-data', eval([[system('xclip -o -selection clipboard')]]))
       end)
     end)