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 10 Yanking Text Back
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 Whenever you cut text out of a buffer with a kill command in GNU Emacs,
 you can bring it back with a yank command.  The text that is cut out of
 the buffer is put in the kill ring and the yank commands insert the
 appropriate contents of the kill ring back into a buffer (not
 necessarily the original buffer).
 
    A simple ‘C-y’ (‘yank’) command inserts the first item from the kill
 ring into the current buffer.  If the ‘C-y’ command is followed
 immediately by ‘M-y’, the first element is replaced by the second
 element.  Successive ‘M-y’ commands replace the second element with the
 third, fourth, or fifth element, and so on.  When the last element in
 the kill ring is reached, it is replaced by the first element and the
 cycle is repeated.  (Thus the kill ring is called a “ring” rather than
 just a “list”.  However, the actual data structure that holds the text
 is a list.  Handling the Kill Ring Kill Ring, for the details of
 how the list is handled as a ring.)
 

Menu

 
· Kill Ring Overview
· kill-ring-yank-pointer      The kill ring is a list.
· yank nthcdr Exercises       The ‘kill-ring-yank-pointer’ variable.
 

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