From 97c3061b8f5b0007864c8148ded08a8c2f94a036 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:33:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Allow having no tab separator

Fixes #2761
---
 kitty/config_data.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kitty/config_data.py b/kitty/config_data.py
index 090a90eba..330696c1c 100644
--- a/kitty/config_data.py
+++ b/kitty/config_data.py
@@ -798,6 +798,8 @@ def tab_separator(x: str) -> str:
     for q in '\'"':
         if x.startswith(q) and x.endswith(q):
             x = x[1:-1]
+            if not x:
+                return ''
             break
     if not x.strip():
         x = ('\xa0' * len(x)) if x else default_tab_separator