From 44816ef8ff64fb72de376d9e157b12785c6abc5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: showergum <showergum@mailbox.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:45:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] console.lua: default prompt to an empty string

Calling input.select() without a prompt argument was failing due to
attempting to concatenate a nil value.

Before mpv 0.40 the prompt defaulted to ">" so this is expected to
work as evident from the example code.
---
 player/lua/console.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/player/lua/console.lua b/player/lua/console.lua
index d100714bd2..30610c65e3 100644
--- a/player/lua/console.lua
+++ b/player/lua/console.lua
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ mp.register_script_message("get-input", function (script_name, args)
 
     input_caller = script_name
     args = utils.parse_json(args)
-    prompt = args.prompt
+    prompt = args.prompt or ""
     line = args.default_text or ""
     cursor = tonumber(args.cursor_position) or line:len() + 1
     keep_open = args.keep_open