From 2ee9b53b53eb1bd86f55f3bbe207cf27659c86c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:55:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Indicate when a section has no items

---
 dashboard-widgets.el | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dashboard-widgets.el b/dashboard-widgets.el
index 5e116806..235f07a2 100644
--- a/dashboard-widgets.el
+++ b/dashboard-widgets.el
@@ -273,12 +273,14 @@ ACTION is theaction taken when the user activates the widget button.
 WIDGET-PARAMS are passed to the \"widget-create\" function."
   `(progn
      (dashboard-insert-heading ,section-name)
-     (when (dashboard-insert-section-list
-            ,section-name
-            (dashboard-subseq ,list 0 list-size)
-            ,action
-            ,@widget-params)
-       (dashboard-insert-shortcut ,shortcut ,section-name))))
+     (if ,list
+         (when (dashboard-insert-section-list
+                ,section-name
+                (dashboard-subseq ,list 0 list-size)
+                ,action
+                ,@widget-params)
+           (dashboard-insert-shortcut ,shortcut ,section-name))
+       (insert "\n    --- No items ---"))))
 
 ;;
 ;; Recentf
@@ -398,7 +400,7 @@ date part is considered."
     (dashboard-insert-section
      (or (and (boundp 'show-week-agenda-p) show-week-agenda-p "Agenda for the coming week:")
          "Agenda for today:")
-     (or agenda '())
+     agenda
      list-size
      "a"
      `(lambda (&rest ignore)
@@ -406,9 +408,7 @@ date part is considered."
           (with-current-buffer buffer
             (goto-char (nth 3 ',el)))
           (switch-to-buffer buffer)))
-     (format "%s" (nth 0 el)))
-    (and (not agenda)
-         (insert "\n    --- No items ---"))))
+     (format "%s" (nth 0 el)))))
 
 ;;
 ;; Registers