From 1edaf252730b7d48a522faae6fae1e98d5f08b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: uinstinct <61635505+uinstinct@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:24:38 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fallback to vsfutil.loadtext when readDocument is null

---
 .../continueintellijextension/continue/file/FileUtils.kt        | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/extensions/intellij/src/main/kotlin/com/github/continuedev/continueintellijextension/continue/file/FileUtils.kt b/extensions/intellij/src/main/kotlin/com/github/continuedev/continueintellijextension/continue/file/FileUtils.kt
index ea7accbb73c..2e66be21980 100644
--- a/extensions/intellij/src/main/kotlin/com/github/continuedev/continueintellijextension/continue/file/FileUtils.kt
+++ b/extensions/intellij/src/main/kotlin/com/github/continuedev/continueintellijextension/continue/file/FileUtils.kt
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class FileUtils(
 
     private fun readDocument(file: VirtualFile, maxLength: Int): String? {
         val document = FileDocumentManager.getInstance().getDocument(file)
-            ?: return ""
+            ?: return null
         val length = min(document.textLength, maxLength)
         return document.getText(TextRange(0, length))
     }