Re: copying and pasting in emacs

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Daniel!

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:47:44PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:07:41AM +0200, Bourgneuf Francois wrote:
> > Use C-y for pasting (y stands for yank)

> I know I'm going to probably get yelled at, sorry I know I should go
> read the manual, but considering this was asked, what's the command to
> grab an old yank?

M-y.  First do C-y, see that you've yanked the wrong stuff, then do M-y
repeatedly till you get what you want.

> eg. yank something that was cut before the last cut?
> eg. ctr+space ctr+w ctr+k then oh damn, how do I paste that first block
> of text?

> Hope that makes sense!

Absolutely!

> Daniel.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).