From 430da6131458609ba28da7b952349169ec84c873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6ran=20Karl?=
 <3951388+JoeKar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:25:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] highlighter: Remove EmptyDef since it's superseeded by a nil
 check of SyntaxDef

---
 internal/buffer/buffer.go    | 2 --
 pkg/highlight/highlighter.go | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/buffer/buffer.go b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
index 6865fe12..772ee00a 100644
--- a/internal/buffer/buffer.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/buffer.go
@@ -908,8 +908,6 @@ func (b *Buffer) UpdateRules() {
 		if b.SyntaxDef != nil {
 			b.Settings["filetype"] = b.SyntaxDef.FileType
 		}
-	} else {
-		b.SyntaxDef = &highlight.EmptyDef
 	}
 
 	if b.SyntaxDef != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/highlight/highlighter.go b/pkg/highlight/highlighter.go
index 10a78d5c..ebcd2aaa 100644
--- a/pkg/highlight/highlighter.go
+++ b/pkg/highlight/highlighter.go
@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ func combineLineMatch(src, dst LineMatch) LineMatch {
 // A State represents the region at the end of a line
 type State *region
 
-// EmptyDef is an empty definition.
-var EmptyDef = Def{nil, &rules{}}
-
 // LineStates is an interface for a buffer-like object which can also store the states and matches for every line
 type LineStates interface {
 	LineBytes(n int) []byte