9.5 Yanking

Yanking means getting back text which was killed. Some systems call this “pasting”. The usual way to move or copy text is to kill it and then yank it one or more times.

C-y

Yank last killed text (yank).

M-y

Replace re-inserted killed text with the previously killed text (yank-pop).

M-w

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

C-M-w

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