Emacs: Copy Paste, kill-ring

Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste

undo 【Ctrl+/】

Undo

kill-region 【Ctrl+w】

Cut

kill-ring-save 【Alt+w】

Copy

yank 【Ctrl+y】

Paste

Paste from Copy History

to paste from kill-ring (storage of copy history):

1. yank 【Ctrl+y】
2. yank-pop 【Alt+y】 to insert previous copied content.
3. Press Alt+y again to get earlier copied content. (repeat this step to get earlier)

A history of copied text is called “kill ring”, stored in the variable kill-ring.

View kill-ring Content

To view copy/cut history: Pull the GUI menu [Edit ▸ Paste from kill Menu].