Daniel Luna

Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

Fix for :reg error in Evil

08 Aug 2015

Small post with a fix for a (somewhat) common problem. If you use Emacs’ registers to save window or frame configurations, you probably found a small bug with the ‘:reg’ command in Evil-mode.

Backtrace with 'wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p _' error

Fortunately, the solution is very simple, just apply this patch and it will work. Or you can just copy-paste and evaluate this code:

(defun evil-register-list ()
  "Returns an alist of all registers"
  (sort (append (mapcar #'(lambda (reg)
                            (cons reg (evil-get-register reg t)))
                        '(?\" ?* ?+ ?% ?# ?/ ?: ?. ?-
                              ?1 ?2 ?3 ?4 ?5 ?6 ?7 ?8 ?9))
                (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (reg) (and (number-or-marker-p (car reg)) reg)) register-alist)) nil
                nil)
        #'(lambda (reg1 reg2) (< (car reg1) (car reg2)))))

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