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Appendix B Handling the Kill Ring

The kill ring is a list that is transformed into a ring by the workings of the rotate-yank-pointer function. The yank and yank-pop commands use the rotate-yank-pointer function. This appendix describes the rotate-yank-pointer function as well as both the yank and the yank-pop commands.

• rotate-yank-pointer: Move a pointer along a list and around.
• yank: Paste a copy of a clipped element.
• yank-pop: Insert first element pointed to.