Re: killring as registers

[Charles A. Roelli]

> From: Thomas Meyer <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:07:52 +0200
>
> hi,
> 
> i'm relativley new to emacs and half way through the manual, and i
> wonder if there is an easy way to access old killring content? i would
> like to use the killring as an "clipboard history" but as far as i
> understand the topic there seems to be no good support, i.e. key binding
> to search the killring and access old content.
> 
> so, is there an extension that lets me access the last 10 killring
> entries as registers 0-9? that would make it a bit better for usage?
> 
> or asked the other way around: how do you use the killring and its
> history?
> 
> with kind regards
> thomas

Previous kills are visible on the "Edit" menu, under "Select and
Paste" (for NS builds), or "Paste from Kill Menu" (for other builds).
Using "text-mode menu", you can also see these kills via:

  M-` e s, for NS builds

and for other builds, via the equivalent keys, possibly M-` e P.