--- a/mercurial/encoding.py	Sat Nov 16 12:19:43 2019 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/encoding.py	Sat Nov 16 15:43:21 2019 +0900
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@
         t = s[start:x]
         if colwidth(t) == c:
             return t
+    raise ValueError('substring not found')
 
 
 def trim(s, width, ellipsis=b'', leftside=False):