From 7542449629eb785ff917dbde0afb48eb0505bb42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 20:49:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor to use io.read_text

---
 aider/main.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/main.py b/aider/main.py
index cb2039351..2028389b6 100644
--- a/aider/main.py
+++ b/aider/main.py
@@ -299,8 +299,9 @@ def main(args=None, input=None, output=None):
         coder.commit(ask=True, which="repo_files")
 
     if args.apply:
-        with open(args.apply, "r") as f:
-            content = f.read()
+        content = io.read_text(args.apply)
+        if content is None:
+            return
         coder.apply_updates(content)
         return