From 108d735e0718ecb47b8f372ec6eae6608f08ee07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jakub=20Klinkovsk=C3=BD?= <j.l.k@gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:04:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hints: fix corner-case in _hint_strings

---
 qutebrowser/browser/hints.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
index 514ebf0b1..ec5f4d56c 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ class HintManager(QObject):
         Return:
             A list of hint strings, in the same order as the elements.
         """
+        if not elems:
+            return []
         hint_mode = self._context.hint_mode
         if hint_mode == 'word':
             try: