GNU Emacs Manual - Yanking

Yanking

Yanking means reinserting text previously killed. This is what some systems call ``pasting''. The usual way to move or copy text is to kill it and then yank it elsewhere one or more times.

C-y

Yank last killed text (yank ).

M-y

Replace text just yanked with an earlier batch of killed text (yank-pop ).

M-w

Save region as last killed text without actually killing it (kill-ring-save ).

C-M-w

Append next kill to last batch of killed text (append-next-kill ).

Kill Ring	Where killed text is stored. Basic yanking.
Appending Kills	Several kills in a row all yank together.
Earlier Kills	Yanking something killed some time ago.