From e374759f29da733f3c404718c333f5f3cb5f332d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Juan=20M=20G=C3=B3mez?= <info@jmgomez.me>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 10:42:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Backport 2.0] When NimScript errors prevents NimSuggest from
 Init (#23349)

---
 compiler/msgs.nim | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/msgs.nim b/compiler/msgs.nim
index 3848bdbfe7..4e9b04de66 100644
--- a/compiler/msgs.nim
+++ b/compiler/msgs.nim
@@ -438,7 +438,11 @@ proc handleError(conf: ConfigRef; msg: TMsgKind, eh: TErrorHandling, s: string,
     if conf.errorCounter >= conf.errorMax:
       # only really quit when we're not in the new 'nim check --def' mode:
       if conf.ideCmd == ideNone:
-        quit(conf, msg)
+        when defined(nimsuggest):
+          #we need to inform the user that something went wrong when initializing NimSuggest
+          raiseRecoverableError(s)
+        else:
+          quit(conf, msg)
     elif eh == doAbort and conf.cmd != cmdIdeTools:
       quit(conf, msg)
     elif eh == doRaise: