Emacs registers are places you can save text or positions for later use. Once you save text or a rectangle in a register, you can copy it into the buffer once or many times; you can move point to a position saved in a register once or many times.
Each register has a name which is a single character. A register can store a piece of text, a rectangle, a position, a window configuration, or a file name, but only one thing at any given time. Whatever you store in a register remains there until you store something else in that register. To see what a register r contains, use M-x view-register.
| Position | Saving positions in registers. |
| Text | Saving text in registers. |
| Rectangle | Saving rectangles in registers. |
| Configurations | Saving window configurations in registers. |
| Files | File names in registers. |
| Bookmarks | Bookmarks are like registers, but persistent. |