Fix inconsistency in value of rcirc-activity-string

* lisp/net/rcirc.el (rcirc-update-activity-string): Consistently
don't display anything if there aren't any IRC connections.

(cherry picked from commit e6a37869c8dcbd17b01dab66c5588f087a33ddf0)

diff --git a/lisp/net/rcirc.el b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
index 0820191e9e73229d569b92f96f0fe11a415c4b63..35a14f7f93b5d032204c8dc7b604a1fe91d87c87 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/net/rcirc.el
+++ b/lisp/net/rcirc.el
@@ -2521,9 +2521,14 @@ activity.  Only run if the buffer is not visible and
                                       (rcirc-activity-string lopri)
                                       ")"))
                          (and hipri "]")))
+                ;; Consistently don't display anything if there aren't
+                ;; any IRC connections.  Otherwise, whether we display
+                ;; "[]" or not depends on whether or not this function
+                ;; happens to have been called in this session yet.
                 ((not (null (rcirc-process-list)))
                  "[]")
-                (t "[]")))
+                (t
+                 "")))
     (run-hooks 'rcirc-update-activity-string-hook)
     (force-mode-line-update t)))