Variable: kill-ring

kill-ring is a variable defined in simple.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of killed text sequences.

Since the kill ring is supposed to interact nicely with cut-and-paste facilities offered by window systems, use of this variable should interact nicely with interprogram-cut-function and interprogram-paste-function. The functions kill-new, kill-append, and current-kill are supposed to implement this interaction; you may want to use them instead of manipulating the kill ring directly.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/simple.el.gz
;;;; The kill ring data structure.

(defvar kill-ring nil
  "List of killed text sequences.
Since the kill ring is supposed to interact nicely with cut-and-paste
facilities offered by window systems, use of this variable should
interact nicely with `interprogram-cut-function' and
`interprogram-paste-function'.  The functions `kill-new',
`kill-append', and `current-kill' are supposed to implement this
interaction; you may want to use them instead of manipulating the kill
ring directly.")