12.11 Cutting, copying and pasting using the kill ring

The Editor provides a sophisticated range of commands for cutting or copying text onto a special kind of clipboard, known as the kill ring , and then pasting that text back into your Editor later on. There are three steps in the process, as follows:

• Marking a region of text.
• Cutting or copying the text in that region to place it in the kill ring.
• Pasting the text from the kill ring back into a buffer.

12.11.1 Marking the region

12.11.2 Cutting or copying text

12.11.3 Pasting text