Ingo Karkat wrote:
> In a plugin, I want to avoid that a :put =var command clobbers the expression
> register, so I save this via getreg('=', 1). I realized that I couldn't use
> setreg() to restore the expression register, but assignment via :let @= = var
> works just fine. Is this disallowed for setreg() because both the "append to
> register" functionality and the regtype argument don't make sense here?
>
> I think it would be helpful to hint at the possibility of using :let @=;
> otherwise, people might assume that restoring the expression register value
> isn't possible at all.
Thanks, I'll include it.
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