; (emoji--read-emoji): Signal error on empty input (Bug#68671)

diff --git a/lisp/international/emoji.el b/lisp/international/emoji.el
index 3b97d6915af7b872c339cd48a8c34323a4160cd0..cab1d2e663ca98746302243ded83c9d9395e5b42 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/international/emoji.el
+++ b/lisp/international/emoji.el
@@ -680,11 +680,12 @@ We prefer the earliest unique letter."
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-    (when (cl-plusp (length name))
-      (let ((glyph (if emoji-alternate-names
-                       (cadr (split-string name "\t"))
-                     (gethash name emoji--all-bases))))
-        (cons glyph (gethash glyph emoji--derived))))))
+    (if (cl-plusp (length name))
+        (let ((glyph (if emoji-alternate-names
+                         (cadr (split-string name "\t"))
+                       (gethash name emoji--all-bases))))
+          (cons glyph (gethash glyph emoji--derived)))
+      (user-error "You didn't specify an emoji"))))
 
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