From ab826d88f69a3cc2785baa6367d3bd01dbb84627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thiago de Arruda <tpadilha84@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:07:16 -0300
Subject: eval: Return an empty list from systemlist() when there's no output

This is the behavior on vim's `systemlist()`.
---
 src/nvim/eval.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/nvim/eval.c b/src/nvim/eval.c
index 59363a3608..fc61fed529 100644
--- a/src/nvim/eval.c
+++ b/src/nvim/eval.c
@@ -14492,6 +14492,11 @@ static void get_system_output_as_rettv(typval_T *argvars, typval_T *rettv,
   set_vim_var_nr(VV_SHELL_ERROR, (long) status);
 
   if (res == NULL) {
+    if (retlist) {
+      // return an empty list when there's no output
+      rettv->v_type = VAR_LIST;
+      rettv->vval.v_list = list_alloc();
+    }
     return;
   }
 
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