From 5c6c14e21be8a2dcf6ef7d6484f877fa644b9f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:14:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TW-1381

- TW-1381 blocking report exits with "Unknown error" and exit code 3.
---
 ChangeLog                 | 1 +
 src/ViewTask.cpp          | 2 +-
 src/columns/ColParent.cpp | 9 ++++++++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dc954bb1d..f3ed239fc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
 - TW-1366 In diagnostics it's called 'Cert', and in config it's called
           'certificate' (thanks to Jack).
 - TW-1373 taskrc.vim VIM syntax file updated (thanks to lolilolicon).
+- TW-1381 blocking report exits with "Unknown error" and exit code 3.
 - TW-1383 Segmentation fault running import-yaml.pl with included example
           (thanks to Markus Beppler).
 - Removed deprecated 'echo.command' setting, in favor of the 'header' and
diff --git a/src/ViewTask.cpp b/src/ViewTask.cpp
index e31613726..f7a17b197 100644
--- a/src/ViewTask.cpp
+++ b/src/ViewTask.cpp
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ ViewTask::~ViewTask ()
 //   +--+--+-------+--+-------+--+-------+--+
 //   |ma|ex|cell   |in|cell   |in|cell   |ex|
 //   +--+--+-------+--+-------+--+-------+--+
-// 
+//
 //   margin        - indentation for the whole table
 //   extrapadding  - left and right padding for the whole table
 //   intrapadding  - padding between columns
diff --git a/src/columns/ColParent.cpp b/src/columns/ColParent.cpp
index 025a91233..3566a2912 100644
--- a/src/columns/ColParent.cpp
+++ b/src/columns/ColParent.cpp
@@ -81,10 +81,17 @@ void ColumnParent::render (
   //                             34f00694  short
   if (_style == "default" ||
       _style == "long")
+  {
     lines.push_back (color.colorize (leftJustify (task.get (_name), width)));
+  }
 
   else if (_style == "short")
-    lines.push_back (color.colorize (leftJustify (task.get (_name).substr (28), width)));
+  {
+    if (task.has (_name))
+      lines.push_back (color.colorize (leftJustify (task.get (_name).substr (28), width)));
+    else
+      lines.push_back (color.colorize (leftJustify ("", width)));
+  }
 }
 
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