;;; register.el --- register commands for Emacs
;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
-;; 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: internal
;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
Called from program, takes four args: REGISTER, START, END and DELETE-FLAG.
START and END are buffer positions indicating what to append."
(interactive "cAppend to register: \nr\nP")
- (or (stringp (get-register register))
- (error "Register does not contain text"))
- (set-register register (concat (get-register register)
- (filter-buffer-substring start end)))
+ (let ((reg (get-register register))
+ (text (filter-buffer-substring start end)))
+ (set-register
+ register (cond ((not reg) text)
+ ((stringp reg) (concat reg text))
+ (t (error "Register does not contain text")))))
(if delete-flag (delete-region start end)))
(defun prepend-to-register (register start end &optional delete-flag)
Called from program, takes four args: REGISTER, START, END and DELETE-FLAG.
START and END are buffer positions indicating what to prepend."
(interactive "cPrepend to register: \nr\nP")
- (or (stringp (get-register register))
- (error "Register does not contain text"))
- (set-register register (concat (filter-buffer-substring start end)
- (get-register register)))
+ (let ((reg (get-register register))
+ (text (filter-buffer-substring start end)))
+ (set-register
+ register (cond ((not reg) text)
+ ((stringp reg) (concat text reg))
+ (t (error "Register does not contain text")))))
(if delete-flag (delete-region start end)))
(defun copy-rectangle-to-register (register start end &optional delete-flag)