The kill ring stores text which has been killed, so that it may be recovered at a later date. Text can be re-inserted into a buffer by yanking. There is only one kill ring for all buffers so that text can be copied from one buffer to another.
A history of parts recently deleted. This is called a "ring" because it can be rotated by the "Paste" command. See the "Kill Ring" section for more details.
under Emacs, it is the set of text areas cut or copied since the starting the editor. The text areas may be recalled to be inserted again, and the structure is ring-like.
(emacs) A set of buffers where killed text is kept; the buffers are arranged in a circular pattern. When commands that automatically move from one buffer to the next get to the end of the set, the next movement will be to the first buffer in the ring.
The kill ring is where all text you have killed recently is saved. You can reinsert any of the killed text still in the ring; this is called yanking (q.v.). See section H.8 Yanking.
under Emacs , it is the set of text areas cut or copied since the beginning of the editor, which may be recalled to be inserted again, and which is organized like a ring.
An emacs storage structure where text can be placed for subsequent reference.