From ab7e20d586cae93a2f763ca54aa5273926cb894a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:33:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (kill-new): Don't try to setcar kill-ring if it is nil.

---
 lisp/simple.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 2158d35891..aded4e0650 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ Optional second argument REPLACE non-nil means that STRING will replace
 the front of the kill ring, rather than being added to the list."
   (and (fboundp 'menu-bar-update-yank-menu)
        (menu-bar-update-yank-menu string (and replace (car kill-ring))))
-  (if replace
+  (if (and replace kill-ring)
       (setcar kill-ring string)
     (setq kill-ring (cons string kill-ring))
     (if (> (length kill-ring) kill-ring-max)
-- 
2.20.1