From 006c2811e099992fb8739c1bd51eb173b7852499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:27:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 kitty/simple_cli_definitions.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/simple_cli_definitions.py b/kitty/simple_cli_definitions.py
index f9347fb8d..126e2fb9c 100644
--- a/kitty/simple_cli_definitions.py
+++ b/kitty/simple_cli_definitions.py
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ def generate_c_for_opt(name: str, defval: Any, opt: OptionDict) -> Iterator[str]
             yield from add_list_values(*opt['choices'])
         case _:
             yield '\tflag.defval.type = CLI_VALUE_STRING;'
-            yield f'\tflag.defval.strval = {"NULL" if defval is None else c_str(defval)};'
+            if defval is not None:
+                yield f'\tflag.defval.strval = {c_str(defval)};'
 
 
 def generate_c_parser_for(funcname: str, spec: str) -> Iterator[str]: