emacs-prevent-empty-ring-failure.el

;; Description:
;; Prevent 'evil-paste-after' and 'evil-paste-before' from failing when the
;; paste ring (akin to the clipboard) is empty.
;;
;; Gits URL: 
;; License: MIT
;; Author: James Cherti

(defun ignore-empty-ring-errors (orig-func &rest args)
  "Ignore errors related to the empty ring when calling ORIG-FUNC with ARGS."
  (condition-case nil
      (apply orig-func args)
    (error (message "Nothing to paste!") nil)))

(advice-add 'evil-paste-after :around #'ignore-empty-ring-errors)
(advice-add 'evil-paste-before :around #'ignore-empty-ring-errors)