From 8e3cef33d9d33dadaa75dc20a06de242471612f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:27:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Error out early if there is nothing to move

Fixes: #532
---
 src/cmdparse.y | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cmdparse.y b/src/cmdparse.y
index 0144524b..a1fb0473 100644
--- a/src/cmdparse.y
+++ b/src/cmdparse.y
@@ -762,6 +762,11 @@ move:
     {
         owindow *current;
 
+        /* Error out early to not create a non-existing workspace (in
+         * workspace_get()) if we are not actually able to move anything. */
+        if (match_is_empty(&current_match) && focused->type == CT_WORKSPACE)
+            break;
+
         printf("should move window to workspace %s\n", $3);
         /* get the workspace */
         Con *ws = workspace_get($3, NULL);